However, weight loss was consistently reported as an adverse event in the original studies, especially in overweight or obese patients.

Some overweight patients pleaded to keep the drugs, but are being advised to diet and exercise instead.

In a story my magazine is running in our January issue, we learned that doctors just hate treating overweight patients.

To the Editor: For 20 years I treated overweight patients who also had emotional problems.

This finding, called "acanthosis nigricans," is common in overweight patients.

Handling extremely overweight patients - moving them, bathing them - can require several people, when one might do with a person of ordinary size.

The truth of the matter is that some overweight patients may need treatment for depression, regardless of whether it results in weight loss.

We must therefore strengthen the voice of obese and overweight patients.

One commenter requested that overweight patients with co-morbidities be covered.

It was the name of a heavy-duty bed designed for overweight patients.