Are health care professionals advising obese patients to lose weight?

Implementation of the National Institutes of Health's 1998 guidelines, which recommended that health care professionals advise obese patients to lose weight, required baseline data for evaluation. To describe the proportion and characteristics of obese persons advised to lose weight by their he...

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Published in:	JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 282; no. 16; p. 1576
Main Authors:	Galuska, D A, Will, J C, Serdula, M K, Ford, E S
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 27.10.1999
Subjects:	Adult Aged Counseling Female Health Personnel Health Surveys Humans Logistic Models Male Middle Aged Obesity - prevention & control Patient Care Management Practice Patterns, Physicians United States Weight Loss United States
ISSN:	0098-7484
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