Traditional Treatment Approach In conclusion, physicians are headed toward a new treatment approach. Currently, the traditional treatment approach focuses on lipids, blood pressure, and treating diabetes. Patients may be monitored and given some advice on diet, but the concentration of treatment is on medical therapies for these cardiometabolic risk factors. Not much attention is paid to weight.
New Treatment Approach In the future, medicine will shift in the way it is practiced by internists, cardiologists, and endocrinologists. More time will be spent focusing on reducing weight starting with behavior and lifestyle intervention, exercise and increasing daily life activities, and then using medication if it is appropriate. Reducing weight will be the way to prevent patients from developing lipid disorders, high blood pressure, impaired glucose tolerance, and ultimately diabetes, which leads to the cardiometabolic risk factors that require so much time to treat in internal medicine.