Health professional advice for smoking and weight in adults with and without diabetes: findings from BRFSS.

Health risk behaviors including smoking and weight-gain can cause and exacerbate chronic diseases like diabetes. Brief provider advice is an effective intervention to reduce risk from these behaviors. However, behavioral advice is provided more often to those who already have a chronic illness when...

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Published in:Journal of Behavioral Medicine Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 10 - 20
Main Authors: Schauer, Gillian, Halperin, Abigail, Mancl, Lloyd, Doescher, Mark
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Feb2013
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