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Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for morbid obesity
A Schigt1, V E A Gerdes, H A Cense
1Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Abstract:
The global obesity epidemic is also affecting the Netherlands, paralleled by a proportional increase in the number of morbidly obese persons. Bariatric surgery has been included as a treatment for morbid obesity in the Dutch Guideline for Obesity (2008). Nonetheless, bariatric surgery is applied in only a limited number of morbidly obese subjects in the Netherlands. Based on the most recent literature and Dutch statistics, this review provides a summary of current knowledge on the impact of obesity on health and health care and highlights the effective role of bariatric surgery in reducing this threat to public health.
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