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Africa

• WHO African Region
  • Obesity

Asia-Pacific

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Economic burden of underweight and overweight among adults in the Asia-Pacific region: a systematic review [2016]

Australia

• Australian Diabetes Society
  • Australian Obesity Management Algorithm

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Overweight & obesity

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • Adult obesity management in Australia: How can we bridge the gap between guidelines and current general practice? [2025]
  • Supporting healthcare professionals to reduce weight stigma [2024]
  • Barriers to progression through Australian obesity management pathways: Survey data from the ACTION-IO study [2023]

• Obesity Research & Clinical Practice
  • The Australian Obesity Management Algorithm: A simple tool to guide the management of obesity in primary care [2022]

• Pilot and Feasibility Studies
  • A collaborative process for developing a weight management toolkit for general practitioners in Australia—an intervention development study using the Knowledge To Action framework [2016]

• Queensland Health
  • Management for Overweight and Obesity - Clinical Practice Guideline

Brazil

• Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Care of patients with obesity in the Emergency Department: a joint position statement from the Brazilian Association of Emergency Medicine (ABRAMEDE) and the Brazilian Association for the Study of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome (ABESO) [2025]

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Is the management of obesity in primary health care appropriate in Brazil? [2021]
  • Obesity and public policies: the Brazilian government’s definitions and strategies [2017]

• Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Adherence of Artificial Intelligence Models to Brazilian guidelines for obesity in Primary Health Care [2026]

Canada

• BCGuidelines
  • Overweight and Obese Adults: Diagnosis and Management

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Weight management in Canada: an environmental scan of health services for adults with obesity [2014]

• CMAJ
  • Obesity in adults: a clinical practice guideline [2020]

• Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
  • Cost analyses of obesity in Canada: scope, quality, and implications [2013]

• Obesity Canada
  • Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines

• Public Health Ontario
  • Obesity

Caribbean and Pacific

• Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
  • Regulatory measures to fight obesity in Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean and Pacific, 2015 – 2017 [2018]

China

• Frontiers of Medicine
  • Obesity in China: its characteristics, diagnostic criteria, and implications [2015]

China, Europe

• Precision Clinical Medicine
  • Trends of obesity management in adults: an analysis across guidelines in China and in Europe [2025]

Europe

• European Association for the Study of Obesity
  • European Association for the Study of Obesity Position Statement on the Diagnosis and Management of Obesity in Older Adults [2026]
  • Providing a common language for obesity: the European Association for the Study of Obesity obesity taxonomy [2024]
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines for Obesity Management in Europe: Gaps and Needs [2024]
  • Obesity and COVID-19: The Two Sides of the Coin [2020]
  • Obesity and COVID-19: A Perspective from the European Association for the Study of Obesity on Immunological Perturbations, Therapeutic Challenges, and Opportunities in Obesity [2020]
  • European Association for the Study of Obesity Position Statement on the Global COVID-19 Pandemic [2020]
  • The ABCD of Obesity: An EASO Position Statement on a Diagnostic Term with Clinical and Scientific Implications [2019]
  • European Guidelines for Obesity Management in Adults [2015]
  • Need for a Paradigm Shift in Adult Overweight and Obesity Management - an EASO Position Statement on a Pressing public Health, Clinical and Scientific Challenge in Europe [2014]
  • Beyond BMI - Phenotyping the Obesities [2014]
  • Guidelines

• European Society for Clinical Investigation
  • Bridging the gap in obesity research: A consensus statement from the European Society for Clinical Investigation [2025]

• European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism
  • European guideline on obesity care in patients with gastrointestinal and liver diseases - Joint European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism / United European Gastroenterology guideline [2022]

• European Society of Endocrinology
  • European Society of Endocrinology Clinical Practice Guideline: Endocrine work-up in obesity [2020]

• Obesity Facts
  • OBEDIS Core Variables Project: European Expert Guidelines on a Minimal Core Set of Variables to Include in Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trials of Obesity Interventions [2020]
  • European Practical and Patient-Centred Guidelines for Adult Obesity Management in Primary Care [2019]
  • Obesity Management in Europe: Current Status and Objectives for the Future [2016]

• WHO European Region
  • Obesity and inequities: guidance for addressing inequities in overweight and obesity [2014]
  • The challenge of obesity in the WHO European Region and the strategies for response [2007]
  • Obesity EURO

Europe, United States

• JACC: Advances
  • A Closer Look at ACC/AHA and ESC Guidelines for Managing Obesity and Overweight in Adults [2023]

France

• Haute Autorité de Santé
  • Care pathway guide: overweight and obesity in adults [2024]

Germany

• Obesity Facts
  • The Economic Burden of Obesity in Germany: Results from the Population-Based KORA Studies [2016]

High-income countries

• Obesity Reviews
  • Management of overweight and obesity in primary care—A systematic overview of international evidence-based guidelines [2019]

Hungary

• BMC Family Practice
  • Primary care obesity management in Hungary: evaluation of the knowledge, practice and attitudes of family physicians [2013]

India

• Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • ESI Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Obesity In India [2022]

• Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
  • Evidence and consensus-based clinical practice guidelines for management of overweight and obesity in midlife women: An AIIMS-DST initiative [2022]

International

• iCARDIO Alliance
  • iCARDIO Alliance Global Implementation Guidelines for the Management of Obesity: Focus on Prevention and Treatment of Cardiometabolic Disease [2026]
  • iCARDIO Alliance Global Implementation Guidelines for the Management of Obesity 2025 [2026]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Management of obesity across women's life course: FIGO Best Practice Advice [2023]

• Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity [2025]

• Lancet Global Health
  • From endorsement of the WHO Acceleration Plan to Stop Obesity to national implementation: country progress on health system preparedness to scale up a comprehensive obesity chronic care programme [2026]

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Current Status and Response to the Global Obesity Pandemic: Proceedings of a Workshop [2019]

• Nature Medicine
  • Joint international consensus statement for ending stigma of obesity [2020]

• Obesity Facts
  • Weight Stigma in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa: A Scoping Review [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • A systematic review of the burden of, access to services for and perceptions of patients with overweight and obesity, in humanitarian crisis settings [2023]

• World Obesity Federation
  • Changing the global obesity narrative to recognize and reduce weight stigma: A position statement from the World Obesity Federation [2024]

Ireland

• Association for the Study of Obesity on the Island of Ireland
  • Guidelines

• Health Information and Quality Authority
  • The Management of Obesity in Adults: Protocol for a review of international clinical guidelines [2025]

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Model of Care for the Management of Overweight and Obesity [2025]

• Obesity Facts
  • Obesity in Adults: A 2022 Adapted Clinical Practice Guideline for Ireland [2022]

Italy

• Eating and Weight Disorders
  • Italian clinical practice GRADE-based guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of overweight and obesity, endorsed by the Italian National Institute of Health [2026]
  • Updating obesity management strategies: an audit of Italian specialists [2022]
  • SIO management algorithm for patients with overweight or obesity: consensus statement of the Italian Society for Obesity (SIO) [2016]

Japan

• Endocrine Journal
  • Definition, criteria, and core concepts of guidelines for the management of obesity disease in Japan [2024]

Kuwait

• PLoS ONE
  • A comprehensive economic assessment of the burden of obesity in Kuwait [2026]

Low and middle income countries

• International Journal of Obesity
  • The clinical and economic burden of obesity in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review [2025]

Malaysia

• Medical Journal of Malaysia
  • A Review of Adult Obesity Research in Malaysia [2016]

Mexico

• Current Obesity Reports
  • Mexican Clinical Practice Guidelines for Adult Overweight and Obesity Management [2024]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Clinical Guidelines for Weight Management in New Zealand Adults [2017]
  • Obesity

• Obesity Reviews
  • Barriers to obesity health care from GP and client perspectives in New Zealand general practice: A meta-ethnography review [2022]

OECD countries

• Obesity Reviews
  • Discrepancies Between Recommendations in Evidence-Based Guidelines for the Management of Obesity in Adolescents and Adults: An Evidence Map [2025]

Poland

• Nutrients
  • Obesity in Adults: Position Statement of Polish Association for the Study on Obesity, Polish Association of Endocrinology, Polish Association of Cardiodiabetology, Polish Psychiatric Association, Section of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery of the Association of Polish Surgeons, and the College of Family Physicians in Poland [2023]

Qatar

• Ministry of Public Health Qatar
  • The Diagnosis & Management of Obesity in Adults [2024]

Republic of Korea

• Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Optimal Waist Circumference Cutoff Values for the Diagnosis of Abdominal Obesity in Korean Adults [2014]
  • 2014 Clinical Practice Guidelines for Overweight and Obesity in Korea [2014]

• Healthcare Informatics Research
  • Development of a Smartphone Application for Clinical-Guideline-Based Obesity Management [2015]

• Journal of Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome
  • Evaluation and Treatment of Obesity and Its Comorbidities: 2022 Update of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Obesity by the Korean Society for the Study of Obesity [2023]
  • Public Statement on the Importance of Prevention and Management of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome during the COVID-19 Pandemic [2021]
  • 2020 Korean Society for the Study of Obesity Guidelines for the Management of Obesity in Korea [2021]
  • 2018 Korean Society for the Study of Obesity Guideline for the Management of Obesity in Korea [2019]

Saudi Arabia

• Obesity Reviews
  • Prevalence, risk factors, and interventions for obesity in Saudi Arabia: A systematic review [2022]

Singapore

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • Health Promotion Board-Ministry of Health Clinical Practice Guidelines: Obesity [2016]

South Africa

• Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
  • Socio-cultural, environmental and behavioural determinants of obesity in black South African women [2013]

• South African Medical Journal
  • Reducing weight bias in obesity management, practice and policy [2025]

South and South-East Asia

• Obesity Reviews
  • Obesity in South and Southeast Asia-A new consensus on care and management [2023]

South-East Asia

• PLoS ONE
  • Urban Environments and Obesity in Southeast Asia: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression [2014]

Spain

• Endocrinología, Diabetes y Nutrición (English ed.)
  • Obesity and COVID-19. A necessary position statement [2021]

• Obesity Facts
  • The Spanish GIRO Guideline: A Paradigm Shift in the Management of Obesity in Adults [2025]

• Revista Española de Enfermedades Digestivas
  • The GIRO Guideline: a key tool to approach the obesity challenge and its impact on digestive health [2025]
  • Role of the gastroenterologist in the comprehensive management of people living with obesity. SEPD Position Paper [2025]

Sri Lanka

• Ministry of Health Sri Lanka
  • Guideline on Management of Overweight and Obesity among Adults in Sri Lanka [2018]

Sweden

• Obesity Facts
  • Systematic Development of National Guidelines for Obesity Care: The Swedish Approach [2024]

Switzerland

• Swiss Medical Weekly
  • Swiss obesity clinical practice guidance [2026]

Thailand

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Economic costs of obesity in Thailand: a retrospective cost-of-illness study [2014]

United Arab Emirates

• Obesity Facts
  • Clinical Practice Recommendations for the Management of Obesity in the United Arab Emirates [2018]

United Kingdom

• Clinical Obesity
  • A Review of the Management of Obesity in Primary Care [2026]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Overweight and obesity management [2026]
  • Overweight and obesity management (Quality standard) [2025]

• NHS England
  • Enhanced service specification – weight management 2024/25 [2024]
  • Managing a healthy weight in adult secure services – practice guidance [2021]

• Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • Weight management
  • Adult obesity: applying All Our Health

• Public Health England
  • Whole systems approach to obesity
  • Obesity, weight management and people with learning disabilities

• Social Science & Medicine
  • Clinician resistance to broaching the topic of weight in primary care: Digging deeper into weight management using strong structuration theory [2023]

• UK Parliament
  • Obesity policy in England [2023]

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Screening for and Management of Obesity and Overweight in Adults [2011]

• American Association of Clinical Endocrinology
  • American Association of Clinical Endocrinology Consensus Statement: Algorithm for the Evaluation and Treatment of Adults with Obesity/Adiposity-Based Chronic Disease - 2025 Update [2025]
  • American Association of Clinical Endocrinology Consensus Statement: Addressing Stigma and Bias in the Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Obesity/Adiposity-Based Chronic Disease and Assessing Bias and Stigmatization as Determinants of Disease Severity [2023]
  • American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and American College of Endocrinology Clinical Practice Guidelines for Comprehensive Medical Care of Patients with Obesity [2016]
  • American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and American College of Endocrinology Position Statement on the 2014 Advanced Framework for a New Diagnosis of Obesity as a Chronic Disease [2014]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Ethical Considerations for the Care of Patients With Obesity [2019]

• American Diabetes Association
  • Introduction and methodology: Standards of Care in Overweight and Obesity-2025 [2025]

• American Heart Association
  • Implementation of Obesity Science Into Clinical Practice: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2024]
  • 2013 AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults [2013]
  • Assessing adiposity: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association [2011]

• American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • U.S. Health Professionals’ Views on Obesity Care, Training, and Self-Efficacy [2015]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Obesity

• Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
  • Healthcare Resource Utilisation and Cost of Obesity and Related Complications in the United States: A Systematic Literature Review [2026]

• Endocrine Society
  • The Science of Obesity Management: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement [2018]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Tackling the complexity of obesity in the US through adaptation of public health strategies [2025]

• JAMA
  • Obesity Management in Adults: A Review [2024]

• Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy
  • Costs of obesity, obesity-related complications, and weight loss in the United States: A systematic literature review [2025]

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Exploring the Science on Measures of Body Composition, Body Fat Distribution, and Obesity: Proceedings of a Workshop Series [2024]
  • Translating Knowledge of Foundational Drivers of Obesity into Practice: Proceedings of a Workshop Series [2023]
  • Addressing Structural Racism, Bias, and Health Communication as Foundational Drivers of Obesity: Proceedings of a Workshop Series [2022]
  • Using Systems Applications to Inform Obesity Solutions: Proceedings of a Workshop [2021]
  • Integrating Systems and Sectors Toward Obesity Solutions: Proceedings of a Workshop [2021]
  • Advancing Effective Obesity Communications: Proceedings of a Workshop [2020]
  • Advancing Obesity Solutions Through Investments in the Built Environment: Proceedings of a Workshop [2018]

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Obesity and Overweight

• Obesity
  • Obesity among Latinx people in the United States: A review [2023]
  • Obesity among Asian American people in the United States: A review [2023]
  • Obesity among African American people in the United States: A review [2023]

• Obesity Medicine Association
  • Obesity management in primary care: A joint clinical perspective and expert review from the Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) and the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) - 2025 [2025]
  • Obesity and advocacy: A joint clinical perspective and expert review from the obesity medicine association and the obesity action coalition - 2024 [2024]
  • Artificial intelligence and obesity management: An Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement (CPS) 2023 [2023]
  • Obesity history, physical exam, laboratory, body composition, and energy expenditure: An Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement (CPS) 2022 [2022]
  • Obesity definition, diagnosis, bias, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and telehealth: An Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement (CPS) 2022 [2022]
  • OMA Clinical Practice Statements, Joint Perspectives, Consensus, and Best Practices

• Obesity Reviews
  • Weight Loss and Black Women: A Systematic Review of the Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention Literature [2012]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Obesity and overweight: Fact sheet
  • Obesity
  • Controlling the global obesity epidemic

WHO South-East Asia Region

• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • Obesity and overweight in South-East Asia

WHO Western Pacific Region

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Overweight and obesity in the Western Pacific Region : an equity perspective [2017]
  • Obesity WPRO

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