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SUBMITTER: Messiah SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3797885 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Messiah Sarah E SE Lopez-Mitnik Gabriela G Winegar Deborah D Sherif Bintu B Arheart Kristopher L KL Reichard Kirk W KW Michalsky Marc P MP Lipshultz Steven E SE Miller Tracie L TL Livingstone Alan S AS de la Cruz-Muñoz Nestor N
World journal of diabetes 20131001 5
<h4>Aim</h4>To investigate whether or not bariatric surgery weight outcomes vary by ethnicity in a large, nationally representative sample of adolescents.<h4>Methods</h4>The Bariatric Outcomes Longitudinal Database was used for analysis and contains data on surgeries performed on adolescents from 2004 to 2010 from 423 surgeons at 360 facilities across the United States Adolescents (n = 827) between 11 and 19 years old who underwent either gastric bypass or adjustable gastric banding surgery were ...[more]