Impact of obesity on health-related quality of life in patients with chronic illness.

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Published in J Gen Intern Med on November 01, 2000

Authors

D A Katz1, C A McHorney, R L Atkinson

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53705, USA. dak@medicine.wisc.edu

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