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"Advancing obesity and obesity-related trials with patients at the center of development.

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Reimagine clinical development by intelligently connecting data, technology, and analytics to optimize your trials. The result? Faster decision making and reduced risk so you can deliver life-changing therapies faster.

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Generate and disseminate evidence that answers crucial clinical, regulatory and commercial questions, enabling you to drive smarter decisions and meet your stakeholder needs with confidence.

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Elevate commercial models with precision and speed using AI-driven analytics and technology that illuminate hidden insights in data.

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Orchestrate your success across the complete compliance lifecycle with best-in-class services and solutions for safety, regulatory, quality and medical information.

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When your destination is a healthier world, making intelligent connections between data, technology, and services is your roadmap.

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By making intelligent connections between your needs, our capabilities, and the healthcare ecosystem, we can help you be more agile, accelerate results, and improve patient outcomes.

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Building on a rich history of developing AI for healthcare, IQVIA AI connects the right data, technology, and expertise to address the unique needs of healthcare. It's what we call Healthcare-grade AI.

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The IQVIA Human Data Science Cloud is our unique capability designed to enable healthcare-grade analytics, tools, and data management solutions to deliver fit-for-purpose global data at scale.

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The IQVIA Innovation Hub connects start-ups with the extensive IQVIA network of assets, resources, clients, and partners. Together, we can help lead the future of healthcare with the extensive IQVIA network of assets, resources, clients, and partners.

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IQVIA Decentralized Trials deliver purpose-built clinical services and technologies that engage the right patients wherever they are. Our hybrid and fully virtual solutions have been used more than any others.

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OBESITY

Faster Results with Rapid Execution

Leverage IQVIA’s global CRO expertise to accelerate obesity clinical trial timelines through proven execution, expert teams, and advanced patient recruitment strategies.

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  • Experts in assistance with endpoints selection based on key global regulatory guidance and procedures
  • Use of exclusive datasets to inform in-development strategy change in a rapidly evolving landscape
  • Patient journey mapping using real world data to identify onset of obesity-related comorbidities to inform lifecycle management strategy
  • Private site network access boosts total enrollment numbers
  • Site activation efficiencies for clients to access a diverse patient population and reduce cycle time
  • Novel trial design
  • Targeted real-time optimization to recruit the right patients in real time
  • Patient Navigators and programs to enhance patient retention tailored to nutritional guidance
  • Centralized real-time data cleaning for swift trial closure
  • Our connected systems help inform your trials, including guidance on devices and endpoints through clinical data oversight
  • Site advisory and technology ecosystem integration creates pathways for effective use of data sources
  • eCOA catalog of connected devices for data oversight

Leverage our cross-therapeutic expertise to treat obesity related comorbidities

OBESITY

Keep patients at the center of development

The global burden of obesity is rising, with 1 billion people worldwide expected to have obesity by 2030.

IQVIA is redefining the obesity clinical trial experience with innovative strategies that accelerate patient recruitment, enhance site operations, and ensure robust, reliable data collection. By embedding COA-driven strategies, we help sponsors differentiate assets in a crowded market and demonstrate meaningful patient impact.

Obesity clinical trials are complex and need an integrated strategy

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>100 trials

With ~54K patients enrolled in 50+ countries across ~2K sites in the past 5 years

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Of GLP-1 drugs included IQVIA’s services for clinical development and patient access and support

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Differentiating Strategic Direction in a Competitive Obesity Market

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Obesity Market Revolution: Reshaping the Future of Metabolic Health

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Obesity Clinical Research: Patient Recruitment Challenges

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Beyond the scale: redefining success in obesity drug market

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An Inflection Point in Obesity R&D

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Innovative Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) Solutions for Obesity Trials: Measuring Matters

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Transforming Weight Management Trials through Digital Health Technology

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Accelerate Your Obesity Trials With IQVIA's Solutions And Expertise

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How the Lancet Commission and FDA are moving the goal posts in obesity

Implications of new guidance for the obesity market and innovators
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Inclusion of Obese Individuals in Early Phase Healthy Volunteer Trials

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Oral obesity therapies: Holding the key to the future

The innovation landscape, opportunities, challenges and public health potential
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Unveiling the Global Landscape of Adult Obesity: A Deep Dive into Real-World Evidence

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IQVIA Institute Obesity Insights and Intelligence

The IQVIA Institute offers stakeholder data, evidence and insights about important topics related to obesity, such as research methodologies, health economic implications and more.

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Tackling Obesity: Knowledge Hub

Stay ahead of the curve by taking advantage of our industry insights on the global health challenges around obesity.

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Therapeutic & Specialty Expertise

Specialized expertise and customized solutions across 14 therapeutic centers of excellence, including oncology, GI/NASH, pediatrics, neurology and rare diseases.

eCOA

Fast, flexible and proven, IQVIA’s industry-leading electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) platform ramps up efficiencies, delivers real-time data, and sharpens insights through best-in-class technology and a better patient experience.

Phase I Trials

Leverage a global network of Phase I clinical pharmacology units to build diversity in patient populations and access a range of geographic regions for early clinical development (ECD) programs.

Patient Recruitment

Predict enrollment more accurately and increase the number of patients per site using data-driven patient recruitment solutions.

Real World Evidence

IQVIA is using vast quantities of data in powerful new ways. See how we can help you tap into information from past trials, patient reported outcomes and other sources to accelerate your research.

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