Long-Term Mortality after Gastric Bypass Surgery
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- 23 August 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 357 (8), 753-761
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa066603
Abstract
Although gastric bypass surgery accounts for 80% of bariatric surgery in the United States, only limited long-term data are available on mortality among patients who have undergone this procedure as compared with severely obese persons from a general population.Keywords
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