Swedish Obese Subjects study-best available data to support antiobesity surgery?

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 561-564

  Kral, John G ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; GASTRIC BANDING; GASTROPLASTY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LEAVE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGEON; SWEDEN; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OBESITY; OBESITY, MORBID; PATIENT SELECTION; SWEDEN; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 33749078531     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2006.08.002     Document Type: Editorial

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