Dr. Sharma had previously blogged about the problem of weight bias amongst health professionals and how this can possibly lead to poorer health care for people with excess weight.
A new study by Virginia Chang and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania, just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) suggests that the quality of health care may not necessarily be worse for obese people compared to normal weight folks.
The reserachers examined eight different performance measures in two US national-level patient populations: (1) Medicare beneficiaries (n = 36 122) and (2) recipients of care from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) (n = 33 550).
The performance measures included diabetes care (eye
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