Treating and Preventing Obesity: An Evidence Based ReviewJan Östman, Mona Britton, Egon Jonsson Obesity now represents a serious problem in industrialized nations. An increasingly large number of people, especially children, are overweight - leading to subsequent illness and a reduced life expectancy. At long last, with this first evidence-based review of the current intervention strategies for treating and preventing obesity clinicians and health insurers have a guide that allows them to select the most efficient and cost-effective method of treatment for any given state of the illness. The whole is backed by extensive tables, a checklist for quality assurance and an extensive glossary. With a foreword by George A. Bray, Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University and Chief of the Clinical Obesity section: ""Treating and Preventing Obesity - An Evidence Based Review" provides a careful and thoughtful assessment of this disease and the options for its control and treatment. It started with the medical model where cure is the outcome. This valuable report provides a timely new analysis of a growing problem." |
Contents
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1 Background | 15 |
2 Systematic Literature Review Methods | 57 |
3 Preventing Obesity | 63 |
4 Treating Obesity in Adults | 93 |
5 Treating Obesity in Children and Adolescents | 227 |
6 Quality of Life | 261 |
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Treating and Preventing Obesity: An Evidence Based Review Mona Britton,Jan Östman,Egon Jonsson No preview available - 2006 |
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