OBESE PATIENTS STUDY
August 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIEEMBARASSMENT about body shape and bias against obese patients by health care providers are some reasons why fat people receive significantly less preventative health care such as mammograms, cervical smears and flu shots than thin people, according to a recent US study. The Duke University Medical Centre research, published in the American Journal of Public Health, showed that for white US middle-aged women, as body mass index (BMI) went up, the odds of receiving mammograms and cervical smears went down. BMI measures body fatness, based on weight ...
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