Highlights from the annual scientific assembly: Mechanisms to stop the epidemic of obesity: Surgical therapy for obesity

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 657-659

  Sugerman, Harvey J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OBESITY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STOMACH BYPASS; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0036083603     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200295060-00017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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3. Who would have thought it? An operation proves to be the most effective therapy for adult-onset diabetes mellitus
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6. Sustained coronary-risk-factor reduction after gastric bypass for morbid obesity
7. Abdominal obesity and the metabolic syndrome
8. Abdominal pressure, sagittal abdominal diameter and obesity comorbidity
9. Effects of surgically induced weight loss on urinary bladder pressure, sagittal abdominal diameter, and obesity comorbidity