Patient's Obesity Diagnosis May Depend On Doctor's Weight, Study Suggests

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Patient's Obesity Diagnosis May Depend On Doctor's Weight, Study Suggests

Whether or not you get a diagnosis of obesity may come down to more than numbers on the scale -- it may actually be about what your doctor's weight is. A new study conducted by the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health shows that when a doctor had a normal body mass index (BMI, a ratio of weight to height) they are more likely to talk to their patients who are obese about weight loss (30 percent of normal-weight doctors, compared with 18 percent of obese or overweight do

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