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Overweight and obesity management

  • NICE guideline
  • Reference number: NG246
  • Published:  14 January 2025

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  • Overview
  • General principles of care
  • Preventing overweight, obesity and central adiposity
  • Identifying and assessing overweight, obesity and central adiposity
  • Discussing results and referral
  • Behavioural overweight and obesity management interventions
  • Physical activity and diet
  • Medicines and surgery
  • Digital technologies for delivering multidisciplinary weight-management services to adults
  • Planning and delivering overweight and obesity services and interventions
  • Monitoring and evaluating services and interventions
  • Terms used in this guideline
  • Recommendations for research
  • Rationale and impact
  • Context
  • Finding more information and committee details
  • Update information

Finding more information and committee details

To find NICE guidance on related topics, including guidance in development, see the NICE topic page on obesity.

For full details of the evidence and the guideline committee's discussions, see the evidence reviews. You can also find information about how the guideline was developed, including details of the committee.

NICE has produced tools and resources to help you put this guideline into practice. For general help and advice on putting our guidelines into practice, see resources to help you put NICE guidance into practice.


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