The SECURE model: A comprehensive approach for obesity management.
- Department of Endocrinology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, india.
- Department of Endocrinology, Bharti Hospital, Karnal, India.
- Diabetes and Endocare Clinic, Berhampur, Odisha, India.
- Hi Tech Medical College and Hospital, Bhubaneshwar, India.
- Dept. of Psychiatry, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
- Department of Endocrinology, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India.
JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association Vol. 70 · Issue 8 · pp. 1468-1469s
PMID 32794511
Cite This Article
Nitin Kapoor, Sanjay Kalra, Sunil Kota, Sambit Das, Stephen Jiwanmall, Rakesh Sahay. The SECURE model: A comprehensive approach for obesity management. JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association. 2020;70(8):1468-1469s.
Abstract
With rapidly increasing prevalence of obesity worldwide, it has become imperative to generate a comprehensive and easy to use clinical model for its management. We propose a simplified yet systematic approach to an obese patient, for a personalised patient centric obesity management. The SECURE model encompasses three domains in evaluation of the patient (Severity assessment, Etiological evaluation and Comorbidity workup) and the other three pillars for obesity treatment (Urge life style changes, Role of medications and surgery and Expected goal setting). This provides a clinical action checklist that may be useful even in other chronic non communicable disorders.
Keywords
- Obesity management
- Step-wise approach
- bariatric protocol.




