Postoperative outcomes of patients with severe obesity who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: Case series
- Author:
Honey Lee Tan
1
;
Orlando F Basilio
1
Author Information
- Publication Type:Other Types
- Keywords: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
- MeSH: Obesity, Morbid
- From: Southern Philippines Medical Center Journal of Health Care Services 2020;6(1):1-5
- CountryPhilippines
- Language:English
- Abstract: Globally, especially in the Asian and African regions, there has been a rising burden of obesity due to high consumption of energy-dense foods and the increase of physical inactivity caused by urbanization and sedentary lifestyle changes.1 Bariatric surgery, or weight-loss surgery, remains to be the most effective treatment for morbid obesity, and it also has resulted in a substantial improvement of obesity-related comorbidities, especially type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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