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01-10-2008 | Guidelines
SAGES guideline for clinical application of laparoscopic bariatric surgery
Author:
SAGES Guidelines Committee
Published in:
Surgical Endoscopy
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Issue 10/2008
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Excerpt
Approximately one-third of US adults are obese [
1]. The health consequences of severe obesity have been well described [
2]. Current evidence suggests surgical therapies offer the best hope for substantial and sustainable weight loss in the extremely obese [
3], with resultant mortality reduction [
4]. These truths, coupled with improved minimally invasive bariatric procedures, have driven a fourfold increase in the population-based rate of bariatric surgery over recent years [
5]. …