Need for a paradigm shift in adult overweight and obesity management - An EASO position statement on a pressing public health, clinical and scientific challenge in Europe

Obesity Facts

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 408-416

  Frühbeck, Gema ^a,b   Toplak, Hermann ^a,c   Woodward, Euan ^a   Halford, Jason C G ^a,d   Yumuk, Volkan ^a,e  

^a European Association for the Study of Obesity on Behalf of the Executive Committee   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOBESITY AGENT;

ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; EUROPE; HUMAN; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RECIDIVISM; ADULT; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; OVERWEIGHT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EUROPE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PUBLIC HEALTH; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84918547886     PISSN: 16624025     EISSN: 16624033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000370038     Document Type: Article

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