Tackling obesity: is primary care up to the challenge?

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Robert F Kushner. Arch Intern Med. 2010.

. 2010 Jan 25;170(2):121-3.

doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.479.

¹ Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. rkushner@northwestern.edu

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