Enhancing pharmacist involvement in weight management - Time to get with the program

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1961-1963

  Malone, Margaret ^a  

^a ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOBESITY AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT;

BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICARE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHARMACIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH BYPASS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BODY MASS INDEX; COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; MEDICARE; OBESITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 7044269591     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.1E378     Document Type: Editorial

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