Sex, Race, and the Adverse Effects of Social Stigma vs. Other Quality of Life Factors Among Primary Care Patients with Moderate to Severe Obesity

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 229-235

  Wee, Christina C ^a   Davis, Roger B ^a   Chiodi, Sarah ^a   Huskey, Karen W ^a   Hamel, Mary B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

obesity; quality of Life; race; sex; stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF ESTEEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SOCIAL STIGMA; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; UNITED STATES; WORK DISABILITY; ANCESTRY GROUP; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHNOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY, MORBID; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OBESITY, MORBID; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STIGMA;

EID: 84925513538     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-3041-4     Document Type: Article

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