Gastrointestinal symptoms are more intense in morbidly obese patients

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1766-1768

  Foster, A ^a   Richards, W O ^b   McDowell, J ^b   Laws, H L ^a,c   Clements, R H ^d  

^a Physicians Medical Center Carraway   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Norwood Clinic Incorporated   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal symptoms; Laparoscopic Roux en Y; Morbid obesity; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; OBESITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SLEEP DISORDER; STOMACH BYPASS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; BODY MASS INDEX; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; OBESITY, MORBID; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 0347995084     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-002-8701-5     Document Type: Article

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