Veterinary Clinical Obesity: A Multidisciplinary Approach
A global clinical textbook for veterinary teams diagnosing, classifying, treating, and monitoring obesity in dogs and cats.
This forthcoming Wiley textbook brings together international contributors across clinical nutrition, internal medicine, primary care, rehabilitation, behavior, communication, and long-term obesity management.
The book is one part of Dr. Ward’s broader work to advance clinical obesity care in companion animals through education, research, clinical frameworks, and practical veterinary team resources.
Moving obesity care beyond weight loss alone.
Veterinary Clinical Obesity: A Multidisciplinary Approach is being developed as a practical clinical reference for veterinary professionals caring for dogs and cats with excess adiposity, obesity-related complications, and long-term weight management needs.
Rather than treating obesity as a single nutrition problem, the textbook presents obesity as a chronic, complex, and medically consequential condition that may affect mobility, pain, metabolic health, respiratory function, reproduction, behavior, quality of life, and lifespan.
The book is designed to help veterinary teams assess the whole patient, identify clinical risk, communicate findings clearly, create treatment plans, monitor progress, and support long-term care without blame or stigma.
It is intended for veterinarians, veterinary nurses and technicians, nutrition specialists, educators, researchers, and practice teams working to improve obesity care in companion animals.
Obesity is common, chronic, and often under-managed.
It supports better diagnosis
The textbook helps veterinary teams move from casual weight comments to structured assessment of adiposity, body condition, muscle condition, clinical risk, and obesity-related complications.
It frames obesity as clinical care
Obesity care requires more than calorie restriction. The book addresses classification, treatment planning, monitoring, relapse prevention, and long-term medical management.
It connects multiple disciplines
Obesity affects many areas of companion animal health. The book brings together nutrition, endocrinology, mobility, pain, behavior, communication, aging, and preventive care.
It is built for practice
The goal is practical application in everyday veterinary medicine: what to assess, how to explain it, how to build a plan, and how to keep patients progressing over time.
A textbook for the next stage of companion animal obesity care.
Developed with contributors from 11 countries, this forthcoming Wiley textbook reflects a global effort to improve how veterinary medicine understands, communicates, classifies, and treats obesity in dogs and cats.
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