Is it time to abandon excess weight loss in reporting surgical weight loss?

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 503-506

  Karmali, Shahzeer ^a   Birch, Daniel W ^a   Sharma, Arya M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Body mass index; Excess weight loss; Ideal weight

Indexed keywords

BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; HUMAN; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BODY MASS INDEX; HUMANS; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 67650713806     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2009.04.014     Document Type: Review

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