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The conference affirmed the need for a medically meaningful and actionable diagnosis of obesity.
Practitioners should focus on developing actionable diagnostic criteria for obesity.
LimitedSupportsmedium confidence
Key conference findings include 5 affirmed and 8 emergent concepts. These concepts include the need for a medically meaningful and actionable diagnosis of obesity.
Why this rating
The findings are based on expert opinion from a consensus conference.
Source
AACE/ACE Consensus Statement
George Grunberger et al. · 2014
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