Obesity Medicine in Primary Care Webcast Post-Test

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* 1. After this session, please rate how your level of confidence changed.

Feel no more confident than before.

Feel a little more confident than before.

Feel somewhat more confident.

Feel more confident than before.

Feel a lot more confident than before.

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* 2. The 2013 American Heart Association/America College of Cardiology/The Obesity Society guidelines recommend that patients with obesity try to lose weight with a lifestyle program for 6 months before a physician should prescribe a weight loss medication.

True

False

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* 3. Phentermine/Topiramate should not be prescribed to a patient:

taking an SSRI

taking Methadone for opiate addiction

who won’t follow the Dean Ornish diet

who is premenopausal and unable or unwilling to use reliable birth control

with well-controlled hypertension on low-dose ACE-inhibitor

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* 4. Bariatric Surgery is not recommended for the treatment of obesity, because it is no more effective than diet and exercise, does not result in long-term weight-loss maintenance, and carries too high a risk of 30-day mortality.

True

False