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Treating Obesity with Drugs and Surgery: A Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians
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Who developed these guidelines?
The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed these recommendations. Members of ACP are internal medicine doctors, specialists in the care of adults.
What is the problem and what is known about it so far?
Obesity leads to health problems, and obese people die younger than normal-weight people. Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of the appropriateness of a person's weight. To calculate BMI, you divide weight in kilograms by the square of height in meters …
