Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults: Executive Summary123: Expert Panel on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight in Adults

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The members of the expert panel and their affiliations are provided as Appendix A.

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The clinical guidelines evidence report was reviewed by 115 health experts at major medical and professional societies. It has been endorsed by the coordinating committees of the National Cholesterol Education Program and the National High Blood Pressure Education Program, the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases National Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity, and the American Heart Association. These groups represent 54 professional societies, government agencies, and consumer organizations (Appendix B).

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An abbreviated practical guide based on the evidence report will be distributed to primary care physicians in the United States as well as to other interested health care practitioners. The Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults: Evidence Report is published as the September 1998 supplement to the Journal of Obesity Research and is available on the NHLBI website (http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/nhlbi/cardio/obes/prof/guidelns/ob_home.htm) or by writing to the NHLBI Information Center, PO Box 30105, Bethesda, MD 20824-0105. The Executive Summary is also published in the September 28, 1998, issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.