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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-8-27
pubmed:abstractText
Although obese individuals utilize health care at higher rates than their normal weight counterparts, they may be less likely to receive certain preventive services. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of veterans with visits to 136 national Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinics in the United States in the year 2000. The cohort included 1,699,219 patients: 94% men, 48% white, and 76% overweight or obese. Overweight and obese patients had higher adjusted odds of receiving each of the targeted clinical preventive services as recommended over 5 years compared with normal weight patients. The odds for receiving vaccinations increased linearly with BMI category: influenza (men: odds ratio (OR) = 1.13 for overweight to OR = 1.42 for obese class 3; women: OR = 1.15 for overweight to OR = 1.61 for obese class 3) and pneumococcus (men: OR = 1.02 for overweight to OR = 1.15 for obese class 3; women: OR = 1.08 for overweight to OR = 1.28 for obese class 3). The odds for receiving the cancer screening services typically peaked in the mild-moderately obese categories. The highest OR for prostate cancer screening was in obese class 2 (OR = 1.29); for colorectal cancer, obese class 1 (men: OR = 1.15; women OR = 1.10); for breast cancer screening, obese class 2 (OR = 1.19); and for cervical cancer screening, obese class 2 (OR = 1.06). In a large national sample, obese patients received preventive services at higher, not lower, rates than their normal weight peers. This may be due to the VA health service coverage and performance directives, a more homogeneous patient demographic profile, and/or unmeasured factors related to service receipt.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1930-7381
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
18
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1827-35
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Ambulatory Care Facilities, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Body Mass Index, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Cohort Studies, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Early Detection of Cancer, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Female, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Health Services Accessibility, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Influenza, Human, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Male, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Obesity, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Odds Ratio, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Pneumococcal Infections, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Preventive Health Services, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Retrospective Studies, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Socioeconomic Factors, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Standard of Care, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-United States, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-United States Department of Veterans Affairs, pubmed-meshheading:20203629-Veterans
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Obesity and receipt of clinical preventive services in veterans.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham, North Carolina, USA. yancy006@mc.duke.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.