Managing weighty issues on lean evidence: the challenges of bariatric medicine
- 4 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by CMA Impact Inc. in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Vol. 172 (1) , 30-31
- https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1041722
Abstract
Obesity currently affects more than 300 million people worldwide, and by the end of this decade as many as 20% of the adult population in North America may have a body mass index (BMI) greater than 40 kg/m2. Thus, physicians and other health care workers will be delivering health care to a growingKeywords
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