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Obesity and Menopause: Improving Outcomes
Recorded for 2025 National Conference
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Category: 2025 National Conference, Cardiometabolic, Cardiovascular, Cert Exam Domain - Assessment, Cert Exam Domain - Planning, Diabetes Mellitus, Family, Health Equities, Lipids, Primary Care, Recent Additions (show less)
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Activity Duration| Content Expires: | July 15, 2026 (11:55 p.m. CT)
CE for this activity will not be available after this date. |
This CE activity was recorded for the 2025 AANP National Conference.  | This activity includes closed captioning. |
| Delivery Note: The content for this activity was previously presented during the 2025 AANP National Conference. If you already completed the content of this activity while attending the live or virtual conference, you should not complete this content a second time. Learners should only complete ONE delivery-method to earn credit. Completing multiple delivery options for the same activity is considered duplicate credit for the same content and will not be accepted by regulatory bodies. |
Overview
Weight gain, body composition changes, and emerging or worsening cardiometabolic risk factors affect women in the menopausal transition. If these issues are not managed successfully, obesity may develop or worsen. Menopause and the menopausal transition contribute to hormonal and body composition changes that increase a woman's cardiometabolic risk and have a detrimental effect on many aspects of her health and quality of life. Women with obesity have even greater risks that need to be understood and mitigated. In addition to the time spent in the menopausal transition, many women spend 40% or more of their lives in a postmenopausal state, making it important for clinicians to understand this complex state. As women enter their 60s and 70s, adiposity-related health issues emerge or worsen, yet are often not recognized or effectively addressed. You will learn about the health risks at various points of the menopausal state so that you can effectively intervene. This presentation will provide you with a roadmap of the entire spectrum of menopause and help you "connect the dots" to improve outcomes.
Objectives
- Recognize the unique health needs of women with obesity during perimenopause and menopause.
- Understand the role of hormonal changes, weight gain, body composition changes, and health risks before, during, and after the menopausal transition.
- Identify strategies that reduce health risks, and improve health and quality of life throughout the menopausal transition and beyond, including pharmacologic management.
Speaker
Sandra Christensen, MSN, ARNP, FNP-BC, MFOMA, FAANP
Disclosure
This program was planned in accordance with AANP CE Standards and Policies.
The speaker has the following disclosures:- I am a speaker for Novo Nordisk for obesity.
- I am a speaker for Eli Lilly for obesity.
- I am on an advisory board for Novo Nordisk for obesity.
All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.
DisclaimerIndividuals who have contributed to the CE Center (content originally from the 2025 AANP National Conference) were carefully selected for their knowledge and experience in the subject area under review. This presentation is informational only and may contain opinions of the authors from their personal experience that do not necessarily express the opinions of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). The activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings. Clinical practice is a constantly changing process and new information becomes available every day. Neither AANP nor the contributing individuals can warrant that the material will continue to be accurate, nor do they warrant that the material is completely free of errors upon publication. Attendees and participants should appraise the information presented critically and are encouraged to consult appropriate resources for any product or device mentioned in this program.
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1.15 Contact Hour(s) of CE,
0.46 of which may be applied towards Pharmacology
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