Metabolic surgery: not just weight loss surgery anymore

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-19

  Madan, Atul K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH INSURANCE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAZIL; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; REMISSION INDUCTION; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 58249088301     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2008.11.005     Document Type: Editorial

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