Journal article
Gender differences in response to an opportunistic brief intervention for obesity in primary care: data from the BWeL trial
- Abstract:
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Weight loss programmes appeal mainly to women, prompting calls for gender-specific programmes. In the United Kingdom, general practitioners (GPs) refer nine times as many women as men to community weight loss programmes. GPs endorsement and offering programmes systematically could reduce this imbalance. In this trial, consecutively attending patients in primary care with obesity were invited and 1882 were enrolled and randomized to one of two opportunistic 30-second interventions to support w...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Clinical Obesity Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- e12418
- Publication date:
- 2020-10-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-09-02
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1758-8111
- ISSN:
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1758-8103
- Pmid:
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33026192
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1136586
- Local pid:
- pubs:1136586
- Deposit date:
- 2020-11-27
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- Copyright holder:
- Tudor et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © 2020 The Authors. Clinical Obesity published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of World Obesity Federation. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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