Obesity: gaining recognition in primary care

Confronting child obesity in primary care.

Obesity: assessment and management in primary care.

Obesity is a complex, multifactorial condition in which excess body fat may put a person at health risk. National data indicate that the prevalence of obesity in the United States is increasing in children and adults. Reversing these trends requires changes in individual behavior and the elimination of societal barriers to healthy lifestyle choices. Basic treatment of overweight and obese patie...

Improving Obesity Management in Adult Primary Care

Prevalence of obesity recorded in Primary Care.

OBJECTIVE To ascertain the prevalence of obesity and overweight recording in primary care (PC) clinical records. DESIGN A descriptive, cross-sectional study. SETTING The study was conducted in three urban, primary care centers in Gipuzkoa. PARTICIPANTS 620 computerized clinical records randomly selected from a population of 63,820. Patient age older than 14 years was the only inclusion cr...

Rethinking primary care systems for obesity

Paul Aveyard and colleagues, in The Lancet, provide optimistic news for the management of obesity in primary care. In this parallel, two-arm, randomised trial of screening and a brief intervention for obesity in primary care, Aveyard and colleagues identifi ed a net weight loss benefi t at 12 months from a 30 s active intervention by primary care physicians. A striking feature of the study was ...