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Access to weight reduction interventions for overweight and obese patients in UK primary care: population-based cohort study
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- Published on: 18 February 2015
- Published on: 18 February 2015Obesity Interventions offered in Primary CareShow More
This article particularly caught our attention because as Psychiatrists we routinely prescribe psychotropic medications with unwanted side effect in the form of weight gain. Under the Shared Care Protocol (with General Practitioners) we often refer our patients to GPs for weight management interventions.
Globally, there are more than 1 billion overweight adults, at least 300 million of them clinically obese. T...
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