A 23-year study of mortality and development of co-morbidities in patients with obesity undergoing bariatric surgery (laparoscopic gastric banding) in comparison with medical treatment of obesity

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Several studies have shown that bariatric surgery reduces long term mortality compared to medical weight loss therapy. In a previous study we have demonstrated that gastric banding (LAGB) is associated with reduced mortality in patients with and without diabetes, and with reduced...

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Autores principales: Pontiroli, Antonio E., Zakaria, Ahmed S., Fanchini, Marco, Osio, Chiara, Tagliabue, Elena, Micheletto, Giancarlo, Saibene, Alessandro, Folli, Franco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6311074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30594184
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12933-018-0801-1

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