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ReviewCurrent obesity reports2016

Disparities in Treatment Uptake and Outcomes of Patients with Obesity in the USA.

Kristina H Lewis, Shenelle A Edwards-Hampton, Jamy D Ard

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Review in Current obesity reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kristina H LewisDepartment of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Weight Management Center, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA.
Shenelle A Edwards-HamptonDepartment of General Surgery, Weight Management Center, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA.
Jamy D ArdDepartment of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Weight Management Center, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA. jard@wakehealth.edu.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are clear and persistent disparities in obesity prevalence within the USA. Some of these disparities fall along racial/ethnic lines; however, there are a number of other social and demographic constructs where obesity disparities are present. In addition to differing rates of obesity across groups, there is growing evidence that subgroups of patients both seek out and respond to obesity treatment differently. This review article explores the epidemiology of obesity disparities, as well as the existing evidence around how different groups may respond to behavioral, medical, and surgical therapies, and potential reasons for differential uptake and response, from culture, to access, to physiology. We find that the vast majority of evidence in this area has focused on the observation that African Americans tend to lose less weight in clinical trials compared to non-Hispanic whites and mainly pertains to behavioral interventions. Moving forward, there will be a need for studies that broaden the notion of health disparity beyond just comparing African Americans and non-Hispanic whites. Additionally, a more thorough examination of the potential for disparate outcomes after medical and surgical treatments of obesity is needed, coupled with the careful study of possible physiologic drivers of differential treatment response.

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Black or African AmericanHispanic or LatinoWhite PeopleDelivery of Health CareEthnicityHealthcare DisparitiesHealth Services AccessibilityHumansObesityPatient SelectionPrevalenceQuality of Health CareUnited StatesAfrican AmericanAnti-obesity pharmacotherapyBariatric surgeryBehavioral interventionCultureDisparitiesEthnicityGenetic admixtureLifestyle modificationObesityObesity prevalenceRaceTreatment accessTreatment adherence

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PMID27023070

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