Episode description
Episode description
Following his presentation at our 2024 Winter Symposium, Professor Ketan Dhatariya discusses Obesity Metabolic Syndrome and diabetes in an engaging and wide-ranging conversation.In this podcast Ketan reflects on the possible false economy of limiting access to GLP-1 agonists, the need for a non-judgmental view of patients presenting with obesity, how an evolutionary viewpoint can usefully inform modern medicine, and just how tasty the woolly mammoths of Red Lion Square were.
Related information:
- Perioperative Care of People with Diabetes Undergoing Surgery (The Centre for Perioperative Care)
- Definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity, The Lancet
- Anaesthesia for the obese patient, BJA Education
- For more on this topic, listen to Ketan's academic collaborator Kariem El-Boghdadly discussing GLP-1 agonists in our recent podcast interview with him.