Bariatric surgery
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Postgraduate Medicine
- Vol. 115 (1) , 49-58
- https://doi.org/10.3810/pgm.2004.01.1412
Abstract
Obesity is a chronic health problem with associated medical complications involving multiple physiologic systems. Some obese patients succeed in losing weight with traditional, nonsurgical therapies and interventions. In this article, Drs Mattison and Jensen discuss the option of bariatric surgery for those patients who have not responded to medically sound weight-loss programs and for whom the complications of obesity pose a high and ongoing risk.Keywords
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