Reporting weight change: Standardized reporting accounting for baseline weight

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 782-789

  Belle, Steven H ^a   Berk, Paul D ^b   Courcoulas, Anita P ^c   Engel, Scott ^d   Flum, David R ^e   Gourash, William ^c   Horlick, Mary ^f   Hsu, Jesse Y ^a   Khandelwal, Saurabh ^e   Mitchell, James E ^d   O'Rourke, Robert W ^g   Pories, Walter ^h   Schrope, Beth ^b   Wolfe, Bruce ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Southeast Campus   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^g OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Obesity; Weight change

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH BYPASS; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; OBESITY; WEIGHT CHANGE;

ADULT; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84885035012     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: 18787533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

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