Physician recommendations for diet and physical activity: Which patients get advised to change?

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 825-833

  Kreuter, Matthew W ^a,b   Scharff, Darcell P ^a   Brennan, Laura K ^a   Lukwago, Susan N ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dietary fat; Physical activity; Physician counseling; Preventive health services

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIETARY INTAKE; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT;

EID: 0031282022     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1997.0216     Document Type: Article

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