Military family physician attitudes toward treating obesity

Military Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 978-984

  Warner, Christopher H ^a,b   Warner, Carolynn M ^b   Morganstein, Joshua ^c   Appenzeller, George N ^a   Rachal, James ^d   Grieger, Thomas ^e  

^a Third Infantry Division   (United States)

^b Winn Army Community Hospital   (United States)

^c Misawa Air Base   (Japan)

^d Offutt Air Force Base   (United States)

^e UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BODY MASS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING; OBESITY; PATIENT COUNSELING;

EID: 53849124354     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.173.10.978     Document Type: Article

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