Validating the alterable weight loss (AWL) metric with 2-year weight loss outcome of 500 patients after gastric bypass

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1085-1089

  Van De Laar, A W ^a   Dolle M H ^a   De Brauw, L M ^a   Bruin, S C ^a   Acherman, Y I ^a  

^a Department Bariatric Surgery Slotervaartziekenhuis ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AWL; Bariatric surgery; Biostatistics; BMI; Body mass index; Gastric bypass; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERABLE WEIGHT LOSS; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BIOSTATISTICS; BODY MASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METRIC SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH BYPASS; VALIDATION STUDY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AGE; ALGORITHM; FACTUAL DATABASE; LAPAROSCOPY; OBESITY, MORBID; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; BODY MASS INDEX; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84904416585     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: 17080428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-014-1203-4     Document Type: Article

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