Race plays role in weight-related counselling among obese patients

When it comes to advising obese patients, blacks receive less weight reduction and exercise counselling from physicians than their white counterparts. This is according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who examined the impact of patient and doctor race concordance on weight-related counselling. The results are featured in the January 2011 online issue of Obesity...

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