Weight loss, quality of life and employment status after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: 5-year analysis

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 413-416

  Velcu, Laura M ^a   Adolphine, Roline ^b   Mourelo, Ramon ^b   Cottam, Daniel R ^a   Angus, L D George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Employment; Morbid obesity; Quality of life; Roux en Y gastric bypass

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYEE; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBID OBESITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH BYPASS; STUDENT T TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNEMPLOYMENT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNEMPLOYMENT; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 33646463922     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2005.04.007     Document Type: Article

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