Obesity: Part 3 (Clinical Component of ABCD - 2025 AACE Update)

This episode reviews the clinical component of the 2025 ACE consensus, shifting from identifying excess adiposity to staging adiposity based chronic disease (ABCD). It explains how clinicians assess obesity related complications, apply disease staging independent of BMI, and account for contributing factors such as medications, endocrine causes, genetics, psychological influences, and social determinants. The episode then connects staging to individualized treatment planning and long term management within a chronic disease framework.