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Overcoming obesity: Weight-loss drugs are underused

Amjad Kanj, MD, MPH and Diane Levine, MD, FACP
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2020, 87 (10) 602-604; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19102
Amjad Kanj
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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Vice-chair for Education, and Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
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