Obesity bias: How can this underestimated problem affect medical decisions in healthcare? A systematic review.
Guilherme Heiden TeloLucas Friedrich FontouraGeorgia Oliveira AvilaVicenzo GhenoMaria Antônia Bertuzzo BrumJulia Belato TeixeiraIsadora Nunes ErthalJanine AlessiGabriela Heiden TeloPublished in: Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2024)
The presence of obesity bias has negative effects on medical decision-making and on the quality of care provided to patients with obesity. These findings reveal the urgent necessity for reflection and development of strategies to mitigate its adverse impacts. (The protocol was registered with the international prospective register of systematic reviews, PROSPERO, under the number CRD42022307567).
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome
- weight loss
- high fat diet induced
- type diabetes
- weight gain
- decision making
- systematic review
- randomized controlled trial
- quality improvement
- palliative care
- emergency department
- gene expression
- single cell
- skeletal muscle
- genome wide
- affordable care act
- health insurance
- meta analyses
- adverse drug
- drug induced