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Interventional treatment of obesity and diabetes: An interim report on gastric electrical stimulation

Gastric electrical stimulation has been applied to treat human obesity since 1995. Dilatation of the stomach causes a series of neural reflexes which result in satiation and satiety. In non-obese individuals food ingestion is limited in part by this mechanism. In obese individuals, satiation and sat...

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Autor principal: Lebovitz, Harold E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882354/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27106829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11154-016-9350-7