Preventing Obesity in the Primary Care Setting

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 625-643

  Grief, Samuel N ^a   Talamayan, Kathleen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Obesity; Prevention; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ALLI; AMFEPRAMONE; PHENTERMINE; RIMONABANT; SIBUTRAMINE; TETRAHYDROLIPSTATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; BLOATING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; COUNSELING; DIARRHEA; DYSPEPSIA; EXERCISE; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEART PALPITATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; NERVOUSNESS; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; TACHYCARDIA; UNITED STATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT CONTROL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

APPETITE DEPRESSANTS; COUNSELING; DIET; EXERCISE; HUMANS; OBESITY; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; REMINDER SYSTEMS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53549103584     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2008.07.002     Document Type: Review

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