JMIR Research Protocols, 2022 BackgroundBariatric surgery is an effective procedure for the treatment of obesity. Despite this, only 0.1% to 2% of eligible individuals undergo surgery worldwide. The stigma surrounding surgery might be a reason for this.
Franshelis K Garcia +5 more
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Hemosuccus Pancreaticus as a Rare Complication of Bariatric Surgery [PDF]
, 2007 Hemosuccus pancreaticus is a rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding from the duct of Wirsung into the duodenum via the ampulla of Vater. Hemosuccus pancreaticus is difficult to diagnose because the bleeding is usually intermittent, and the clinical ...
Edward Lee, Lucie Yang, Mark W. Wilson
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Effects of bariatric surgery on mortality in Swedish obese subjects.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2007 BACKGROUND Obesity is associated with increased mortality. Weight loss improves cardiovascular risk factors, but no prospective interventional studies have reported whether weight loss decreases overall mortality.
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The Operative management in Bariatric Acute abdomen (OBA) Survey: long-term complications of bariatric surgery and the emergency surgeon\u27s point of view. [PDF]
, 2020 Background: The number of bariatric procedures is increasing worldwide. No consensus or guidelines about the emergency management of long-term complications following bariatric surgery are currently available. The aim of this study is to investigate by a
Abu-Zidan, Fikri M. +9 more
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Effects of bariatric surgery [PDF]
, 2012 Globally, 500 million people are obese (body mass index [BMI] ≥30). In Sweden, 14% of the population is obese. Obesity is associated with an increased risk of mortality, cancer and several co morbidities.
Plecka Östlund, Magdalena
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“Bariatric families”- a new phenomenon with unique characteristics
BMC Pediatrics, 2020 Background Many obese children have at least one obese parent, and some of them have one parent who had undergone bariatric surgery (“bariatric families”). The perceptions and attitudes towards child obesity of parents in bariatric families vs.
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Bariatric surgery and its impact on cardiovascular disease and mortality : A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
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Anderson, Simon G +7 more
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Use of bariatric surgery in patients with type 2 diabetes: help to the practitioner
Ожирение и метаболизм, 2016 The use of bariatric surgery in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has its own features. In this lecture we discuss indications and contraindications for bariatric surgery, including specific, e.g.
Ekaterina V. Ershova +1 more
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Current Status of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery in Korea [PDF]
Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2016 Bariatric surgery is considered to be the most effective treatment modality in maintaining long-term weight reduction and improving obesity-related conditions in morbidly obese patients.
Youn-Baik Choi
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Performance of capture-recapture population size estimators under covariate information [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Capture-recapture methods for estimating the total size of elusive populations are widely-used, however, due to the choice of estimator impacting upon the results and conclusions made, the question of performance of each estimator is raised. Motivated by an application of the estimators which allow covariate information to meta-analytic data focused on
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