Weight-loss counseling most prevalent between male physicians and obese men

Friday, May 6, 2011 - 08:30 in Health & Medicine

A new study examined the association between patient–physician gender concordance and weight-related counseling in obese individuals. Investigators found that obese male patients seeing male physicians had higher odds of receiving weight-related counseling than obese women seeing a female physician.

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