Obesity specialists are scarce. Here’s how that’s starting to change

Treatment of weight problems has by no means been extra outstanding, with the appearance of medicines like Ozempic and Mounjaro producing each pleasure and concern. Missed, nevertheless, is a extreme scarcity of docs who really focus on treating weight problems.

Throughout the US, fewer than 100 docs have accomplished a fellowship in weight problems drugs and are actively training, in accordance with a STAT evaluation. Greater than half of those specialists are situated throughout simply 4 states — New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and California — with the vast majority of states not having a single one.

Given that nearly 50% of the U.S. inhabitants is predicted to have weight problems by 2030, consultants say that is essentially the most extreme patient-specialist mismatch within the nation.