Surgery for Obesity

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Seeking surgical relief for her morbid obesity, a patient epitomized her resolution in this way: "I always thought I had a 'condition.' Now I know I have a disease. A disease can be treated." Evidence like the article in this issue of the Journal (p. 6) shows that adverse genetic and neonatal influences can become diseases in adolescent and adult life that foster obesity as inexorably as certain neurologic or endocrine abnormalities.Surgical management is an appropriate consideration for patients with morbid obesity who have failed to lose weight under strict medical supervision. The most direct operations are those that . . .

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