Obesity management in primary care

Obesity management in primary care

Aveyard and colleagues2 argue that their trial tested “the effectiveness of physicians screening for and opportunistically intervening on obesity” but the procedure tested in the trial might be more typical of opportunistic case finding by research staff rather than true population screening. Refere...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Lancet (British edition) 2017-04, Vol.389 (10079), p.1605-1606
Hauptverfasser: Booth, Helen P, Gulliford, Martin C
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Body Mass Index
Body weight
Health care
Humans
Internal Medicine
Intervention
Obesity
Obesity Management
Overweight
Physicians
Population
Population studies
Primary care
Primary Health Care
Public health
Screening
Weight control
Weight reduction
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Zusammenfassung:Aveyard and colleagues2 argue that their trial tested “the effectiveness of physicians screening for and opportunistically intervening on obesity” but the procedure tested in the trial might be more typical of opportunistic case finding by research staff rather than true population screening. References 1 HP Booth, AT Prevost, MC Gulliford, Access to weight reduction interventions for overweight and obese patients in UK primary care: population-based cohort study, BMJ Open, Vol. 5, 2015, e006642 2 P...
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31014-0