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Medical News: Not All the News on Bariatric Surgery Is Good - in Primary Care, Weight Management from MedPage Today

See this is exactly why I am not going for bariatric surgery.  It just can't be as good as all the people making money off of it think it is.  Funny how we go through this weight loss fads.  Liquid diets, etc. 

About 1% of bariatric surgery patients die within a year of surgery, researchers here found, and the case fatality rate approaches 6% after five years.

Medical News: Not All the News on Bariatric Surgery Is Good - in Primary Care, Weight Management from MedPage Today

Posted to by on October 17, 2007 10:35 PM |

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