Research
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Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery resulted in a greater percentage of excess weight loss compared to medical management, with 66% versus -1.6%.
Practitioners can expect significant weight loss in patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery compared to those managed medically.
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The group undergoing gastric bypass surgery had greater percentage of excess weight loss than the control group-66% versus -1.6%, respectively.
Why this rating
The study is a retrospective analysis with a significant sample size and long follow-up.
Source
Gastric Bypass Surgery Leads to Long-term Remission or Improvement of Type 2 Diabetes and Significant Decrease of Microvascular and Macrovascular Complications
Yijun Chen et al. · Annals of Surgery · 2015
cohort · n=173Cited 62×
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