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Obesity Research

This Week in JAMA

Original Contributions

  • The Spread of the Obesity Epidemic in the United States, 1991-1998

    • Ali H. Mokdad,
    • Mary K. Serdula,
    • William H. Dietz,
    • Barbara A. Bowman,
    • James S. Marks,
    • Jeffrey P. Koplan
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1519-1522.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1519

  • The Disease Burden Associated With Overweight and Obesity

    • Aviva Must,
    • Jennifer Spadano,
    • Eugenie H. Coakley,
    • Alison E. Field,
    • Graham Colditz,
    • William H. Dietz
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1523-1529.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1523

  • Annual Deaths Attributable to Obesity in the United States

    • David B. Allison,
    • Kevin R. Fontaine,
    • JoAnn E. Manson,
    • June Stevens,
    • Theodore B. VanItallie
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1530-1538.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1530

  • Dietary Fiber, Weight Gain, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Young Adults

    • David S. Ludwig,
    • Mark A. Pereira,
    • Candyce H. Kroenke,
    • Joan E. Hilner,
    • Linda Van Horn,
    • Martha L. Slattery,
    • David R. Jacobs, Jr
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1539-1546.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1539

  • Relationship Between Low Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Mortality in Normal-Weight, Overweight, and Obese Men

    • Ming Wei,
    • James B. Kampert,
    • Carolyn E. Barlow,
    • Milton Z. Nichaman,
    • Larry W. Gibbons,
    • Ralph S. Paffenbarger, Jr,
    • Steven N. Blair
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1547-1553.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1547

  • Effects of Intermittent Exercise and Use of Home Exercise Equipment on Adherence, Weight Loss, and Fitness in Overweight Women: A Randomized Trial

    • John M. Jakicic,
    • Carena Winters,
    • Wei Lang,
    • Rena R. Wing
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1554-1560.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1554

  • Reducing Children's Television Viewing to Prevent Obesity: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    • Thomas N. Robinson
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1561-1567.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1561

Preliminary Communication

  • Recombinant Leptin for Weight Loss in Obese and Lean Adults: A Randomized, Controlled, Dose-Escalation Trial

    • Steven B. Heymsfield,
    • Andrew S. Greenberg,
    • Ken Fujioka,
    • Russell M. Dixon,
    • Robert Kushner,
    • Thomas Hunt,
    • John A. Lubina,
    • Janet Patane,
    • Barbara Self,
    • Pam Hunt,
    • Mark McCamish
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1568-1575.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1568

Brief Report

  • Are Health Care Professionals Advising Obese Patients to Lose Weight?

    • Deborah A. Galuska,
    • Julie C. Will,
    • Mary K. Serdula,
    • Earl S. Ford
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1576-1578.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1576

Editorials

  • Caloric Imbalance and Public Health Policy

    • Jeffrey P. Koplan,
    • William H. Dietz
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1579-1581.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1579

  • Patients, Physicians, and Weight Control

    • Phil B. Fontanarosa
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1581-1582.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1581

The Cover

  • Still Life—Strawberries, Nuts, & c.

    • M. Therese Southgate
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1502.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1502

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Poetry and Medicine

Contempo

  • Recent Advances in Basic Obesity Research

    • Jack A. Yanovski,
    • Susan Z. Yanovski
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1504-1506.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1504

Medical News & Perspectives

  • Knockout Science: Chubby Mice Provide New Insights Into Obesity

    • Joan Stephenson
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1507-1508.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1507

  • Genetically Enhanced Rice to Help Fight Malnutrition

    • M. J. Friedrich
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1508-1509.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1508

  • Better Control Coming for Clotting and Bleeding

    • Charles Marwick
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1509-1510.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1509

Quick Uptakes

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • Mortality Patterns—United States, 1997

    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1512-1513.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1512

  • Inadvertent Use of Bicillin® C-R for Treatment of Syphilis—Maryland, 1998

    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1513-1514.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1513

Letters

  • Lifestyle and Structured Interventions to Increase Physical Activity

    • Paul T. Williams
      • Richard A. Winett,
      • Ralph N. Carpinelli
      • George Davey Smith,
      • Shah Ebrahim
      • Andrea L. Dunn,
      • Steven N. Blair,
      • James B. Kampert,
      • Bess H. Marcus,
      • Melissa E. Garcia,
      • H. W. Kohl III
      • Ross Andersen
      • Michael Pratt
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1515-1517.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1515

  • CSF Leptin Levels After Exogenous Administration of Recombinant Methionyl Human Leptin

    • Ken Fujioka,
    • Janet Patane,
    • John Lubina,
    • David Lau
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1517-1518.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1517

The Patient-Physician Relationship

  • Physician Counseling About Exercise

    • Christina C. Wee,
    • Ellen P. McCarthy,
    • Roger B. Davis,
    • Russell S. Phillips
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1583-1588.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1583

Books, Journals, New Media

  • Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times

    • Paul M. Gahlinger
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1589.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1589

  • Publishing and Presenting Clinical Research

    • Lee Ann Riesenberg,
    • Don Riesenberg
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1589-1590.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1589-a

  • Clinical Practice of Gastroenterology, vols 1 & 2

    • Z. Myron Falchuk
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1590-1591.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1590

  • Oxford Textbook of Clinical Hepatology, vols 1 & 2

    • Frank L. Iber
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1591.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1591

  • Adult Health Advisor 7.OS

    • Kauko I. Jantunen
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1591-1592.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1591-a

  • Books, Journals, New Media Received

    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1592.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1592

Obituary Listing

Resident Physician Forum

  • Teaching Hospitals in Trouble: Defining the Problem

    • Paul Barach
    JAMA. 1999;282(16):1592.doi:10.1001/jama.282.16.1592-b

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October 27, 1999, Vol 282, No. 16, pp 1497-1596
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