Weight management advice: What do doctors recommend to their patients?

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 482-486

  Shiffman, Saul ^a   Sweeney, Christine T ^a   Pillitteri, Janine L ^a   Sembower, Mark A ^a   Harkins, Andrea M ^b   Wadden, Thomas A ^c  

^a PINNEY ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Obesity; Physician counseling; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BODY MASS; COMMUNICATION SKILL; DIET THERAPY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH BYPASS; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT LOSS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70749137336     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.09.015     Document Type: Article

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