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    Primary care and primary healthcare in obesity management

    Primary care clinicians should initiate patient-centred conversations with their patients about overweight or obesity. The 5As of Obesity ManagementTM (Ask-Assess-Advise-Agree-Assist) approach, starting with asking permission to discuss weight, is an appropriate format to use. Primary care clinicians sho...

    Weight management over the reproductive years for adult women with obesity

    This chapter addresses the management of weight related to three phases of a woman’s reproductive years – precon­ception, during pregnancy and postpartum – for adult wom­en with obesity. Although these reproductive periods are addressed separately, it is important to consider that these phases re...

    Obesity in adults: a clinical practice guideline

    Can. Med. Assoc. J; 192 (31), 2020
    Obesity is a complex chronic disease in which abnormal or excess body fat (adiposity) impairs health, increases the risk of long-term medical complications and reduces lifespan.1 Epidemiologic studies define obesity using the body mass index (BMI; weight/height2), which can stratify obesity-related healt...