Friday, July 1, 2022
There may very well be little doubt in anyone’s minds that the 2020 launch of the Canadian Medical Observe Tips about Grownup Weight issues, a summary of which was revealed in CMAJ, represents every a landmark and a watershed in weight issues medicine.
Inside 48 hours of its launch, it acquired over 80 miillion media impressions all around the world and the CMAJ summary was the #1 downloaded article on the CMAJ site in 2020.
Merely how big the have an effect on of these suggestions had been, is possibly best mirrored by the newest “thanks” discover to the authors from Kirsten Patrick, Editor-in-Chief of the CMAJ, which notes:
“I’m writing to thanks for contributing to CMAJ’s doubling its Impression Challenge (IF) on this yr’s report! CMAJ’s 2021 IF is 16.859. The highly-influential Guideline that you just and your colleagues revealed in CMAJ in 2020 contributed to this huge leap. Thanks for choosing CMAJ to your publication. I hope you’ll choose us as soon as extra.”
Truly, in response to Google Scholar, the principles have already been cited in over 150 articles and downloads of the PDF from the CMAJ site continues at a delicate clip of over 2000 a month.
This pretty spectacular consideration to these scientific apply suggestions (often a reasonably mundane event that not usually catches the attention of lay media), is testament to the nice efforts and forward-thinking methodology taken by the over 60 authors, who in 19 chapters format our current pondering and proof for addressing weight issues as an influence sickness in scientific apply.
Whereas I congratulate CMAJ on this spectacular leap in its have an effect on subject, I can solely hope that this consideration is mirrored inside the implementation of the over 80 ideas by payers and effectively being authorities along with any effectively being practitioners involved in weight issues care.
As our info continues to advance, I look ahead to the persevering with updates of these tricks to be sure that these advances proceed to reinforce the lives of the people residing with weight issues.
@DrSharma
Berlin, D
