Advantages of percent weight loss as a method of reporting weight loss after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Obesity

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1519-1525

  Hatoum, Ida J ^a,b   Kaplan, Lee M ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PERCENT BASELINE WEIGHT LOSS; PERCENT EXCESS BODY WEIGHT LOSS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84883167674     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oby.20186     Document Type: Article

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