Synopsis of the 2020 U.S. VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Adult Overweight and Obesity.
Introduction: In May of 2020, the U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and Department of Defense (DoD) approved a new joint clinical practice guideline for assessing and managing patients who have overweight and obesity. This guideline is intended to give healthcare teams a framework by which t...
| Published in: | Military Medicine Vol. 186; pp. 884 - 897 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
2021 Supplement
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