Once patients get to a healthy weight, they often do not meet the insurance criteria to get these medication covered, says Mir Ali, MD, medical director of MemorialCare Surgical Weight Loss Center at Orange Coast Medical Center
By doing so, they can hold on to as much muscle as they can and retain the muscle that theyve already got and hopefully the weight that they lose as a product of taking that kind of medication will be predominantly fat
Differential Item Functioning (DIF) analysis was done to determine measurement invariance between Asian versus White, Black versus White, English versus Spanish speaking, low versus higher income, married versus unmarried, those with private or public insurance, young versus older individuals, and single versus multiple parity participants
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