What is it about?
The quality of the interaction between healthcare providers and patients can impact overall health. Quality of this interaction is worse for patients who are obese compared to patients with normal weight. We show that this interaction can also depend on whether a patient has a high genetic risk for obesity.
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Why is it important?
Our findings suggest that health care providers are making judgments about the source or cause of a patient's BMI, and subsequent diabetes diagnosis. Due to weight-related discrimination, patients may receive reduced quality of care when a provider judges a patient’s high BMI is socially rather than genetically oriented.
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This page is a summary of: Provider Bias as a Function of Patient Genotype: Polygenic Score Analysis among Diabetics from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), Obesity Science & Practice, July 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/osp4.293.
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