American association of clinical endocrinologists and american college of endocrinology position statement on the 2014 advanced framework for a new diagnosis of obesity as a chronic disease

Affiliations

• ¹ UAB Diabetes Research Center, GRECC Investigator and staff physician at the Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL.
• ² Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
• ³ Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
• ⁴ Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA.
• ⁵ University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN.
• ⁶ Diabetes and Endocrine Associates, Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute, University of California San Diego, LaJolla, CA.
• ⁷ Grunberger Diabetes Institute; Internal Medicine and Molecular Medicine & Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
• ⁸ Metabolic Institute of America, Tarzana, CA.
• ⁹ Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
• ¹⁰ Mayo Clinic Medical School, Rochester, MN.
• ¹¹ Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Lipid Research, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
• ¹² Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ.
• ¹³ Emory University Department of Medicine/Endocrinology, Atlanta, GA.