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ReviewNature medicine2020

Joint international consensus statement for ending stigma of obesity.

Francesco Rubino, Rebecca M Puhl, David E Cummings, Robert H Eckel, Donna H Ryan, Jeffrey I Mechanick, Joe Nadglowski, Ximena Ramos Salas, Phillip R Schauer, Douglas Twenefour and 26 more

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Review in Nature medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07334470 (The BRAVE Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 475 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07334470 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

The BRAVE Study: A Sensitivity Intervention With Nursing Students Using Simulation

TypeinterventionalSponsorVillanova UniversityRan2026 to 2028Enrolled368ConditionsWeight BiasArmsBRAVE, SOL: Standard Obesity Lecture
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

475 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  7. Weight stigma in the preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum periods: A systematic review of women's perspectives.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025
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  10. Weight Bias Internalisation and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adolescents: What Role Do Family Meals Play?European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026
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  12. Obesity, incretin-based therapies, and cardiovascular disease in women.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2026
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  17. Photovoice as a Methodology in Obesity Research: A Scoping Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026
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415 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

36 authors.

Francesco RubinoKing's College London, Department of Diabetes, School of Life Course Science, London, UK. francesco.rubino@kcl.ac.uk.
Rebecca M Puhl *Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, USA.
David E Cummings *UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Robert H EckelDivision of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
Donna H RyanPennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
Jeffrey I MechanickThe Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Center for Clinical Cardiovascular Health at Mount Sinai Heart, New York, NY, USA.
Joe NadglowskiObesity Action Coalition, Tampa, FL, USA.
Ximena Ramos SalasObesity Canada, Edmonton, Canada.
Phillip R SchauerPennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
Douglas TwenefourDiabetes UK, London, UK.
Caroline M ApovianBoston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Louis J AronneComprehensive Weight Control Center, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Rachel L BatterhamNational Institute of Health Research, University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK.
Hans-Rudolph BerthoudNeurobiology of Nutrition and Metabolism Department, Pennington Biomedical Research Centre, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
Camilo BozaCentro de Innovación Clinica Las Condes Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago, Chile.
Luca BusettoDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.
Dror DickerHasharon Hospital-Rabin Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Mary De GrootDepartment of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Daniel EisenbergDepartment of Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine and Palo Alto Virginia Health Care System, Stanford, CA, USA.
Stuart W FlintSchool of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Terry T HuangDepartment of Health Policy & Management, Center for Systems & Community Design, New York, NY, USA.
Lee M KaplanObesity, Metabolism and Nutrition Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
John P KirwanIntegrated Physiology and Molecular Medicine, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
Judith KornerDepartment of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Ted K KyleConscienHealth, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Blandine LaferrèreDivision of Endocrinology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Carel W le RouxDiabetes Complications Research Centre, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5521-5445
LaShawn McIverGovernment Affairs & Advocacy, American Diabetes Association, Arlington, VA, USA.
Geltrude MingroneKing's College London, Department of Diabetes, School of Life Course Science, London, UK.
Patricia NeceObesity Action Coalition, Tampa, FL, USA.
Tirissa J ReidDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.
Ann M RogersPennsylvania State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA.
Michael RosenbaumColumbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Randy J SeeleyDepartment of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Antonio J TorresHospital Clinico San Carlos. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
John B DixonBaker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia.

Funding

Tracking & Evaluation CoreU54GM104940 · NIGMS · LSU PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CTR · PI Peter Todd Katzmarzyk · 2012 to 2026
$69.1M
Transgenic CoreP30DK046200 · NIDDK · TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER · PI GREENBERG, ANDREW S, PERISSI, VALENTINA · 1992 to 2021
$25.0M
Neural mechanisms controlling food intake and body weight after bariatric surgeryR01DK047348 · NIDDK · LSU PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CTR · PI BERTHOUD, HANS-RUDOLF · 1994 to 2018
$5.0M
Department of Health RP-2015-06-005NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK046200NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK047348NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM104940
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

People with obesity commonly face a pervasive, resilient form of social stigma. They are often subject to discrimination in the workplace as well as in educational and healthcare settings. Research indicates that weight stigma can cause physical and psychological harm, and that affected individuals are less likely to receive adequate care. For these reasons, weight stigma damages health, undermines human and social rights, and is unacceptable in modern societies. To inform healthcare professionals, policymakers, and the public about this issue, a multidisciplinary group of international experts, including representatives of scientific organizations, reviewed available evidence on the causes and harms of weight stigma and, using a modified Delphi process, developed a joint consensus statement with recommendations to eliminate weight bias. Academic institutions, professional organizations, media, public-health authorities, and governments should encourage education about weight stigma to facilitate a new public narrative about obesity, coherent with modern scientific knowledge.

Indexed as

ConsensusPractice Guidelines as TopicSocial StigmaBody WeightHumansInternational CooperationObesityUniversitiesWeight Prejudice

Identifiers

PMID32127716
PMCPMC7154011

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