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Obesity: The Medical Practitioner's Essential Guide
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Edition:
- 1st Ed.
- Author:
- Blackstone, Robin P.
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- ISBN:
- 978-3-31-939407-7
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 100
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Written by a leading expert in the medical and surgical treatment of obesity, metabolic disease, and obesity-related diseases
Presented in a comprehensive, easy-to-read reference manual format
Provides specific case studies of representative patient problem
This book is the most current, comprehensive medical text focusing specifically on obesity and its related syndromes and diseases. This text takes the newest science and latest research about obesity and renders the information imminently readable and immediately useful to the medical practitioner charged with providing best practices health care for patients who are obese. In the process, this text scientifically clarifies obesity as a disease of epidemic proportions, debunks common myths about obesity, and challenges medicine’s traditional and oftentimes limited view of obesity. More specifically, in Obesity: The Medical Practitioner’s Essential Guide you will find comprehensive, accurate, science-based information about the epidemiology, biology, genetics, psychology, discrimination and prejudice, causes, and effects of obesity, as well as the latest science about obesity’s related syndromes and diseases. In addition, this book provides the medical practitioner with specifi
Presented in a comprehensive, easy-to-read reference manual format
Provides specific case studies of representative patient problem
This book is the most current, comprehensive medical text focusing specifically on obesity and its related syndromes and diseases. This text takes the newest science and latest research about obesity and renders the information imminently readable and immediately useful to the medical practitioner charged with providing best practices health care for patients who are obese. In the process, this text scientifically clarifies obesity as a disease of epidemic proportions, debunks common myths about obesity, and challenges medicine’s traditional and oftentimes limited view of obesity. More specifically, in Obesity: The Medical Practitioner’s Essential Guide you will find comprehensive, accurate, science-based information about the epidemiology, biology, genetics, psychology, discrimination and prejudice, causes, and effects of obesity, as well as the latest science about obesity’s related syndromes and diseases. In addition, this book provides the medical practitioner with specifi
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- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Blackstone, Robin P.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-31-939407-7
- Specialty:
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- Internal Medicine
- Gastroenterology & Hepatology
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 1st Ed.
- Pages:
- 337
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 100
- Doody Core Title Score:
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