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Physicians Treat Obesity Differently Based On Gender.
2001 JUL 5 - (NewsRx Network) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Physicians are unpredictable when it comes to weight loss recommendations for their patients, according to a new report in Obesity Research.
Doctors who answered questionnaires about three hypothetical patients revealed that they would be less likely to recommend weight loss for a man with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 kg/[m.sup.2] than for a woman with the same BMI.
C. Anderson and colleagues at the University of Minnesota surveyed doctors about their attitudes toward three patients who were 25.28, and 32 kg/[m.sup.2] and what interventions they would recommend. Half the physicians were told the patients were women and half that the patients were men.
Of 209 survey respondents, physicians indicated they were more likely to recommend weight loss and suggest treatment referrals for women with a BMI of 25 kg/[m.sup.2] than for men with the same BMI.
Yet the researchers also found that doctors would be more likely to recommend weight loss for the heaviest men - those with a BMI of 32 mg/[kg.sup.2] than for the heaviest women ("Weight loss and gender: An examination of physician attitudes," Obes Res, 2001;9(4):257-263).
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