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Screening and brief intervention for obesity in primary care: a parallel, two-arm, randomised trial
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Background Obesity is a common cause of non-communicable disease. Guidelines recommend that physicians screen and offer brief advice to motivate weight loss through referral to behavioural weight loss programmes. However, physicians rarely intervene and no trials have been done on the subject. We did this trial to establish whether physician brief intervention is acceptable and effective for reducing bodyweight in patients with obesity. Methods In this para... Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31893-1
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Lancet Journal website
- Volume:
- 388
- Issue:
- 10059
- Pages:
- 2492-2500
- Publication date:
- 2016-10-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-10-20
- DOI:
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1474-547X
- ISSN:
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0140-6736
- Source identifiers:
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828025
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:828025
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uuid:542e726b-7ddc-43ad-88bf-22db1976a910
- Local pid:
- pubs:828025
- Deposit date:
- 2018-03-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Aveyard et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- Copyright © The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY license.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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