Does surgically induced weight loss decrease mortality?

Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 136-137

  Laferrère, Blandine ^a,b,c  

^a St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital

^b Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*

^c ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTRIC BANDING; GASTROPLASTY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOTE; OBESITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STOMACH BYPASS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 39749092485     PISSN: 17458366     EISSN: 17458374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpendmet0725     Document Type: Note

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