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Health Promotion Board-Ministry of Health Clinical Practice Guidelines: Obesity
Yung Seng Lee1, Stuart Biddle1, Mei Fen Chan1
1Changi General Hospital; College of Family Physicians Singapore; Gleneagles Hospital and Medical Centre; Health Promotion Board; Khoo Teck Puat Hospital; KK Women's and Children's Hospital; National Institute of Education; National University Hospital; Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore; Singapore General Hospital; Victoria University, Australia; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
Abstract:
The Health Promotion Board (HPB) has developed the Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) on Obesity to provide health professionals in Singapore with recommendations for evidence-based interventions for obesity. This article summarises the introduction, epidemiology and executive summary of the key recommendations from the HPB-MOH CPG on Obesity for the information of SMJ readers. The chapters and page numbers mentioned in the reproduced extract refer to the full text of the guidelines, which are available from the Health Promotion Board website: http://www.hpb.gov.sg/cpg-obesity. The recommendations should be used with reference to the full text of the guidelines. Following this article are multiple choice questions based on the full text of the guidelines.
