Background Obesity is a growing public health challenge worldwide with significant health and economic impacts. However, much of what is known about the economic impacts of obesity comes from ...

1 Center for Evaluation and Survey Research, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico 2 Center for Mathematics Research, Aguascalientes Unit, Aguascalientes, Mexico Background: ...

Objective To determine the prevalence of obesity and its related comorbidities among patients being actively managed at a US academic medical centre, and to examine the frequency of a formal diagnosis ...