Development of Guidelines for Preventing and Managing Obesity and Diabetes in Mentally Ill Patients

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Sir: I would like to thank you for publishing in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry the proceedings from the consensus development conference held in November 2003 between the American Diabetes Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and North American Association for the Study of Obesity.¹