Obesity

Woman, 57 years of age, prediabetes, hyperlipidemia, class I obesity and history of gestational diabetes. I’ve been working with her for the past two years. The first year she was very motivated because of her new diagnosis of prediabetes and her weight being what it was. Her son was getting married and she wanted to lose weight for the wedding. We discussed a plan for her.

Blandine Lacroix talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed at the 2016 AACE Meeting. In part 5, the conclusion of this Exclusive Interview, Blandine Lacroix charges the medical community with understanding obesity and being of support to those with the disease.

Is procedure worth associated acute pancreatitis or spontaneous over-inflation?

Blandine Lacroix talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed at the 2016 AACE Meeting. In part 4 of this Exclusive Interview, Blandine Lacroix explains the motivational interview process.

To fast or not to fast.

In part 3 of this Exclusive Interview, Blandine Lacroix talks about applying motivational interviewing in the patient/provider conversation around diabetes.

In a new international clinical trial, it was shown that the drug liraglutide 3.0 mg may reduce diabetes risk by 80% in individuals with obesity and prediabetes.

In part 2 of this Exclusive Interview, Blandine Lacroix shares the tools that Novo Nordisk provides to help practitioners as well as patients with the disease of obesity, including websites that share the science of obesity and weight loss.

Blandine Lacroix talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed at the 2016 AACE Meeting. In part 1 of this Exclusive Interview, Blandine Lacroix explains the focus of Novo Nordisk on understanding how to improve the care of obesity in the search for the cure for diabetes.

Woman, 63 years of age, history of ovarian cancer, prediabetes, hyperlipidemia, has been trying to lose weight for years but was unable to do so. She is very family-, friend-, colleague-oriented. Every holiday she thought she had to make or bring and eat whatever special holiday food was associated with the holiday. She couldn’t let anyone down by not bringing, or by not eating what other people brought. We met weekly for the past three years. Every week there was some excuse about how or why she “cheated” or if there was a week she didn’t think she “cheated,” then she was afraid she would.