Abstract
The prevalence of clinically severe obesity is increasing much faster than obesity. The widely published trends for overweight/obesity underestimate the consequences for physician practices, hospitals, and health plans because comorbidities and resulting service use are much higher among severely obese individuals. Accommodating severely obese patients will no longer be a rare event, and providers have to prepare to treat such patients on a regular basis.
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OverweightObesityMedicineBody mass indexBehavioral Risk Factor Surveillance SystemDemographyPopulationGerontologySevere obesityWeight lossEnvironmental healthInternal medicine
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- 2003
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- 163
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- 18
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- 2146-2146
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Roland Sturm
(2003).
Increases in Clinically Severe Obesity in the United States, 1986-2000.
Archives of Internal Medicine
, 163
(18)
, 2146-2146.
https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.163.18.2146
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- 10.1001/archinte.163.18.2146