Joint international consensus statement for ending stigma of obesity.

Address: King's College London, Department of Diabetes, School of Life Course Science, London, UK. [email protected].; King's College Hospital, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, London, UK. [email protected].; Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, USA.; UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.; Weight Management Program, Virginia Puget Sound Health Care System, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.; Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.; Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.; Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.; The Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Center for Clinical Cardiovascular Health at Mount Sinai Heart, New York, NY, USA.; Divisions of Cardiology and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.; Obesity Action Coalition, Tampa, FL, USA.; Obesity Canada, Edmonton, Canada.; European Association for the Study of Obesity, Teddington, UK.; Diabetes UK, London, UK.; Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.; Center for Nutrition and Weight Management, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.; Comprehensive Weight Control Center, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.; National Institute of Health Research, University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK.; University College London Hospital Foundation Trust, London, UK.; Centre for Obesity Research, Department of Medicine, University College London, London, UK.; Neurobiology of Nutrition and Metabolism Department, Pennington Biomedical Research Centre, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.; Centro de Innovación Clinica Las Condes Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago, Chile.; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.; Hasharon Hospital-Rabin Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.; Obesity Management Task Force, European Association for the Study of Obesity, Teddington, UK.; Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.; Department of Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine and Palo Alto Virginia Health Care System, Stanford, CA, USA.; School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.; Scaled Insights, Nexus, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.; Department of Health Policy & Management, Center for Systems & Community Design, New York, NY, USA.; NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center, Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.; Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.; Integrated Physiology and Molecular Medicine, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.; Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.; ConscienHealth, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.; Division of Endocrinology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.; Diabetes Complications Research Centre, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.; Government Affairs & Advocacy, American Diabetes Association, Arlington, VA, USA.; King's College London, Department of Diabetes, School of Life Course Science, London, UK.; Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.; Catholic University, Rome, Italy.; Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.; Pennsylvania State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA.; Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.; Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.; Hospital Clinico San Carlos. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.; Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia.