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Researchers provide details of new studies and findings in the area of obesity surgery
Published in Telemedicine Business Week, April 27th, 2005
Study 1: A researcher reviews surgical options for obesity therapy in a recent issue of Best Practice and Research in Clinical Gastroenterology.
According to a study from Austria, "Conservative treatment has been shown in long-term studies to be ineffective in morbid obesity. Surgical treatments break down into restrictive, malabsorptive, combined restrictive and malabsorptive or motility-reducing procedures. Laparoscopic implantation of an adjustable gastric band is an efficient restrictive measure for treating the majority of patients with this...
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