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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2006;296:1575-1577.

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Any debate over the value of bariatric surgery for the treatment of morbid obesity appears over; it works better than lifestyle modification or drug therapy. Whether it becomes the standard of care for patients with morbid obesity remains a question as some insurers refuse to cover the procedure and patients, embarrassed by their condition and burdened by a societal bias that obesity is a personal failure rather than a medical problem, are reluctant to seek treatment.

Advocates like Philip R. Schauer, MD, president of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, say that surgical weight-reduction procedures are the only proven method of eliminating pounds and keeping them off for the approximately 15 million US individuals with morbid obesity (defined as a body mass index [BMI] >40 or >35 with a comorbid condition such as hypertension or type 2 diabetes).

Adoption of the laparoscopic Roux-en-Y approach to gastric bypass is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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