Weight loss and eating behavior following vertical banded gastroplasty
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Weight Loss and Eating Behavior following Vertical Banded Gastroplasty
BACKGROUND Bariatric surgery is the treatment of choice for patients with morbid obesity. In addition to surgery, postoperative dietary behavior is an important mediator of weight loss and, therefore, critical in influencing outcome. Surgical treatment of obesity is not an alternative to dieting but a method to enforce dieting. METHODS We evaluated early weight loss and postoperative eating b...
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عنوان ژورنال: Obesity Surgery
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0960-8923,1708-0428
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-007-9205-0