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Obesity Surgery
Published in: Obesity Surgery 5/2019

01-05-2019 | Bariatric Surgery | Letter to Editor/LED Reply

Reply to Letter to the Editor: Measuring and Defining Response and Non-response After Bariatric Surgery

Authors: Daniëlle S. Bonouvrie, Martine Uittenbogaart, Arijan A. P. M. Luijten, François M. H. van Dielen, Wouter K. G. Leclercq

Published in: Obesity Surgery | Issue 5/2019

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We appreciate author et al. for their interest in our review and we would like to thank them for the Letter to the Editor. In their comment, they suggest that terminologies regarding primary responder (weight loss success), primary non-responder (weight loss failure), and secondary non-responder (weight regain) should be abandoned and that instead we should focus on reporting only means/medians of weight loss outcomes with standard deviations (SD) and interquartile ranges (IQR). …
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Metadata
Title
Reply to Letter to the Editor: Measuring and Defining Response and Non-response After Bariatric Surgery
Authors
Daniëlle S. Bonouvrie
Martine Uittenbogaart
Arijan A. P. M. Luijten
François M. H. van Dielen
Wouter K. G. Leclercq
Publication date
01-05-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Obesity Surgery / Issue 5/2019
Print ISSN: 0960-8923
Electronic ISSN: 1708-0428
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-019-03747-1

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