Racial differences in weight loss, payment method, and complications following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy

Advances in Therapy

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 970-978

  Bayham, Brooke E ^a   Bellanger, Drake E ^b   Hargroder, Andrew G ^b   Johnson, William D ^a   Greenway, Frank L ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Weight Loss Surgical Centers of Louisiana   (United States)

Author keywords

Bypass; Endocrinology; Obesity; Race; Roux en Y gastric bypass; Sleeve gastrectomy; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEGRO; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIVATE PRACTICE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY; STOMACH BYPASS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; GASTRECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REIMBURSEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRIVATE SECTOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84874434685     PISSN: 0741238X     EISSN: 18658652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12325-012-0062-4     Document Type: Article

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