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Recent estimates suggest that approximately two-thirds of Americans are overweight and one-third are obese.1 The current study evaluated patients' perceptions of overweight and obesity in a nationally representative sample of adults in the USA and examined whether reports of physician acknowledgement of patients' weight status are associated with a difference in their perceptions and behaviours.
Methods
The participants included in this study are participants in the 2005–2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey study, aged between 20 and 64 years with measured body mass index (BMI), who were asked whether they had been told by their physician or another health professional that they were overweight. There were 7790 participants, of whom 5474 had a BMI of 25.0 or greater including 2874 with a BMI of 30.0 or greater. The main outcome measure was the …
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Competing interests None.