Weight loss after participation in a national VA weight management program among veterans with or without PTSD

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1385-1388

  Hoerster, Katherine D ^a,b,c   Lai, Zongshan ^d,e   Goodrich, David E ^d,e   Damschroder, Laura J ^d   Littman, Alyson J ^a,b,c   Klingaman, Elizabeth A ^f,g   Nelson, Karin M ^a,b,c   Kilbourne, Amy M ^d,e  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Division of General Medicine   (United States)

^d VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f VA Capitol Health Care Network   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VETERAN; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; EVALUATION STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; GOVERNMENT; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84908642060     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201300404     Document Type: Article

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