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Bariatric surgery has emerged as an effective treatment for obesity.
Bariatric surgery can be considered a viable option for treating obesity in patients.
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Although bariatric surgery has emerged as an effective treatment, and numbers of operations performed worldwide have risen sharply.
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Bariatric surgery and fractures
Marco Bueter · BMJ · 2016
DOI 10.1136/bmj.i4057
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