Morbid Obesity Epidemiology
Recent studies from Hippocratio Hospital add new data to morbid obesity epidemiology
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 29th, 2010
Scientists discuss in 'Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy performed with intent to treat morbid obesity: a prospective single-center study of 261 patients with a median follow-up of 1 year' new findings in morbid obesity. According to recent research from Athens, Greece, "The aim of the study is to look at laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy as a procedure with intent to cure morbid obesity. Secondary endpoints are related to the safety profile of the procedure."
"This is a prospective clinical study conducted in a single university surgical clinic. Two hundred sixty-one patients (2.5:1 female to male ratio, median age of 37 years) underwent sleeve gastrectomy. Median...
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