Regulation of body weight: Lessons learned from bariatric surgery

• Main Authors: Vance L. Albaugh (Author), Yanlin He (Author), Heike Münzberg (Author), Christopher D. Morrison (Author), Sangho Yu (Author), Hans-Rudolf Berthoud (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Bariatric or weight loss surgery is currently the most effective treatment for obesity and metabolic disease. Unlike dieting and pharmacology, its beneficial effects are sustained over decades in most patients, and mortality is among the lowest for major surgery. Because there are not ne...