Association of Bariatric Surgery Using Laparoscopic Banding, Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, or Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy vs Usual Care Obesity Management With All-Cause Mortality

Bariatric surgery is an effective and safe approach for weight loss and short-term improvement in metabolic disorders such as diabetes. However, studies have been limited in most settings by lack of a nonsurgical group, losses to follow-up, missing data, and small sample sizes in clinical trials and...

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Published in:	JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 319; no. 3; p. 279
Main Authors:	Reges, Orna, Greenland, Philip, Dicker, Dror, Leibowitz, Morton, Hoshen, Moshe, Gofer, Ilan, Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J, Balicer, Ran D
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 16.01.2018
Subjects:	Adult Female Gastrectomy - methods Gastrectomy - mortality Gastric Bypass - mortality Gastroplasty - mortality Humans Kaplan-Meier Estimate Laparoscopy Male Middle Aged Obesity, Morbid - mortality Obesity, Morbid - surgery Obesity, Morbid - therapy Proportional Hazards Models Retrospective Studies Weight Loss
ISSN:	1538-3598, 1538-3598
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