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PLoS Medicine, 2020 Background Previous clinical trials and institutional studies have demonstrated that surgery for the treatment of obesity (termed bariatric or metabolic surgery) reduces all-cause mortality and the development of obesity-related diseases such as type 2 ...
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Nutrition Today, 2022 Today, bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment of obesity. Restrictive surgeries are aimed at reducing the volume of the stomach. Such operations have the least adverse effects in terms of the physiology of digestion.
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Eligibility for bariatric surgery among adults in England: analysis of a national cross-sectional survey. [PDF]
, 2014 This study aimed to determine the number eligible for bariatric surgery and their sociodemographic characteristics.We used Health Survey for England 2006 data, representative of the non-institutionalized English population.The number of people eligible ...
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Bariatric surgery and brain health: A longitudinal observational study investigating the effect of surgery on cognitive function and gray matter volume [PDF]
, 2020 Dietary modifications leading to weight loss have been suggested as a means to improve brain health. In morbid obesity, bariatric surgery (BARS)—including different procedures, such as vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG), gastric banding (GB), or Roux-en-Y
Flöel, A. +7 more
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Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2020 Background Bariatric surgery is an effective long-term weight loss strategy yielding improvements in neurocognitive function; however, the mechanism(s) responsible for these improvements remains unclear.
Wesley J. Tucker +10 more
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International Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), more than 20 million Americans suffer from chronic taste problems. Unfortunately, quantitative testing is rarely performed, self‐reports are inaccurate, and “taste” is often confused with olfaction‐dependent flavors.
Richard L. Doty +2 more
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2019 Background The efficacy and safety of bariatric surgery have not been fully elucidated in patients affected with human immunodeficiency virus. Although adjustable gastric banding and sleeve gastrectomy are starting to be used in patients with human ...
Wei Yang +7 more
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Application of Machine Learning Algorithms in Classifying Postoperative Success in Metabolic Bariatric Surgery: A Comprehensive Study [PDF]
DIGITAL HEALTH (2024), 10, 20552076241239274Objectives: Metabolic Bariatric Surgery (MBS) is a critical intervention for patients living with obesity and related health issues. Accurate classification and prediction of patient outcomes are vital for optimizing treatment strategies. This study presents a novel machine learning approach to classify patients in the context of metabolic bariatric ...
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Hypothesis tests for multiple responses regression: effect of probiotics on addiction and binge eating disorder [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Clinical trials are common in medical research where multiple non-Gaussian responses and time-dependent observations are frequent. The analysis of data from these studies requires statistical modeling techniques that take these characteristics into account.
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Bariatric Surgery as a Treatment to Obesity [PDF]
, 2019 This paper focuses on the efficiency and effectiveness that bariatric surgery provides as a treatment for the obesity epidemic that is ever-growing in our country. By taking into account scientific, ethnographical, scholarly, statistic-based, and various
Dunn, Morgan D
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