title: What can physicians do about obesity?
abstract: Obesity is a serious and very common health problem. In 1998, the American Heart Association announced the addition of obesity to its list of major risk factors that people can control to prevent death and disability from coronary heart disease ((1)).
authors.affiliation: Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA. andersen@jhmi.edu.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Andersen