Lifting the unbearable weight of morbid obesity

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 247, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-29

  Mattar, Samer G ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ARTHRITIS; BARIATRIC SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEDICARE; MORBID OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; WEIGHT GAIN;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MEDICARE; OBESITY, MORBID; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37549072648     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318160c1fc     Document Type: Editorial

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