Quality of life among obese patients seeking weight loss surgery: The importance of obesity-related social stigma and functional status

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 231-238

  Wee, Christina C ^a   Davis, Roger B ^a   Huskey, Karen W ^a   Jones, Daniel B ^a   Hamel, Mary B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LARYNX CANCER; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; SHORT FORM 36; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SOCIAL STIGMA; TELECONSULTATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIAL STIGMA; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873474594     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-012-2188-0     Document Type: Article

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