Ted Kyle
@ConscienHealth
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Noted advocate for more rational health and obesity policies. Advisor to the Obesity Society and past Chair of the Obesity Action Coalition.
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined January 2013
A very specific #MakeNewMistakes situation. From Farsighted to Flailing as the Obesity Market Advances - ConscienHealth
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As the obesity market advances dramatically, will Novo Nordisk continue flailing or take back its leadership position from Lilly?
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From Farsighted to Flailing as the #Obesity Market Advances - @ConscienHealth
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As the obesity market advances dramatically, will Novo Nordisk continue flailing or take back its leadership position from Lilly?
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Reject the binary. Surgery delivers good and durable outcomes in obesity. Medicines have value of their own and as a complement to surgery. Thank you, @Jmortonmd and Wendy Brown. HT: @JAMANetwork
https://t.co/BVjP0Ikmm1
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Did You Know? Obesity treatments like semaglutide are helping the heart. A new @TheLancet study finds the heart benefits of semaglutide go beyond weight loss. @Conscienhealth breaks it down in his recent blog:
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A new study in Lancet tells fundamentally reframes the medical benefits semaglutide can bring to a growing number of people around the world.
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The #obesity market is poised for dramatic growth. Is @EliLillyandCo now the entrenched leader? Will @novonordisk muster the tenacity to reclaim its former leadership status? Or will an upstart push them both aside? Change is afoot. https://t.co/1s7lAhr1yE
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Surgery plus medicine for obesity makes things better @Jmortonmd
Reject the binary. Surgery delivers good and durable outcomes in obesity. Medicines have value of their own and as a complement to surgery. Thank you, @Jmortonmd and Wendy Brown. HT: @JAMANetwork
https://t.co/BVjP0Ikmm1
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@ConscienHealth Well stated- I think often of the breast cancer analogy re obesity treatment especially Dr Bernie Fischer’s work with #NSABP where he established that less invasive lumpectomy plus chemo radiation was equivalent to modified radical mastectomy underscoring that the disease is
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Agree Ted- lots of opportunities for multimodal therapy Thank you
Reject the binary. Surgery delivers good and durable outcomes in obesity. Medicines have value of their own and as a complement to surgery. Thank you, @Jmortonmd and Wendy Brown. HT: @JAMANetwork
https://t.co/BVjP0Ikmm1
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Make no mistake. We are very enthusiastic about opening up access to obesity medicines. But #FuzzyMath is not the best way to make the case. HT: @colbertlateshow
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OW2025: A Passionate Debate of the Lancet Commission Report - ConscienHealth https://t.co/jGCD4z2FTg "BMI is simply an unreliable indicator of adipose tissue distribution in different racial and ethnic populations at a given BMI value."
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We enjoyed a passionate debate yesterday about the merits and deficiencies of Lancet Commission report on the definition of clinical obesity.
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Big "Yes, And" Energy! Surgery Plus Medicine for Obesity Makes Things Better - ConscienHealth
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Increasingly it is evident that surgery plus medicine is the best way to think about these complementary approaches to obesity care.
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Surgery Plus Medicine for #Obesity Makes Things Better - @ConscienHealth
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Increasingly it is evident that surgery plus medicine is the best way to think about these complementary approaches to obesity care.
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Reject the binary. Surgery delivers good and durable outcomes in obesity. Medicines have value of their own and as a complement to surgery. Thank you, @Jmortonmd and Wendy Brown. HT: @JAMANetwork
https://t.co/BVjP0Ikmm1
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@MichaelMindrum @ConscienHealth I totally agree with your assessment. Most people simply cannot afford to stay on this med.
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Anyone have a clue?
@novonordisk stated in its press release last week that CagriSema results presented at #ObesityWeek were "simultaneously published in Hypertension." I still can't find them anywhere in that journal. Does anyone have a clue or a link? https://t.co/8mmIPBQNZY
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There's got to be a #SixSeven joke in here somewhere. Sometimes Numbers for Obesity Get Fuzzy - ConscienHealth
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When the subject is obesity, the numbers often get fuzzy – like the claim that ��Americans will lose 135 billion pounds by the midterms.”
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So much news was swirling in and around @ObesityWeek that it was really overwhelming. Here is a short list of thoughts we've taken home from the meeting. Show us yours, please. https://t.co/d9KL0yuk4q
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Five Thoughts to Take Home from ObesityWeek 2025 - ConscienHealth
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ObesityWeek 2025 was memorable both for news at the meeting and news about obesity that unfolded outside the meeting. Here are five themes.
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Today is a day to stop and think about more than a decade of working with an exceptional leader in obesity medicine: @askdrfatima. A new PBS feature brings us to reflect upon this. https://t.co/mXQrV7LQPg
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