Are health care professionals advising obese patients to lose weight?

JAMA

Volumn 282, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 1576-1578

  Galuska, Deborah A ^a   Will, Julie C ^a   Serdula, Mary K ^a   Ford, Earl S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0032741518     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.282.16.1576     Document Type: Article

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