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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2019 Sep 13;27(12):1958–1966. doi: 10.1002/oby.22628

Figure 1. Number of ABOM Diplomates from Adult Medicine Specialties and Prevalence of Adult Obesity by State.

Figure 1.

For each state, top number represents the number of Adult Medicine ABOM Diplomates as of February 2019 and the bottom number represents the prevalence of adult obesity (aged 18 or older) in 2017. Adult Medicine ABOM Diplomates include physicians trained in internal medicine, family medicine or internal medicine-pediatrics. All physician information, including specialty and location, abstracted from the ABOM online directory of Diplomates (21). Adult obesity prevalence determine from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (24). Abbreviations: ABOM – American Board of Obesity Medicine.