This review summarizes recent evidence related to the safety, efficacy, and metabolic
outcomes of bariatric surgery to guide clinical decision making. Several short term …

Importance The clinical evidence base demonstrating bariatric surgery's health benefits is
much larger than it was when the National Institutes of Health last held a consensus panel in …

Bariatric surgery provides substantial, sustained weight loss and major improvements in
glycaemic control in severely obese individuals with type 2 diabetes. However, uptake of …

Demand for bariatric surgery to treat severe and resistant obesity far outstrips supply. We
aimed to comprehensively synthesise health economic evidence regarding bariatric surgery …

Obesity is a chronic and debilitating disease that has become a global epidemic. Especially
severe in the Unites States, obesity currently affects almost 40% of the population. Obesity …

Empirical investigations implicate emotional eating (EE) in dysfunctional eating behavior
such as uncontrolled overeating and insufficient weight loss following bariatric surgery. They …

Obesity and its many serious comorbidities exert a heavy toll in both human and economic
terms. More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese and, therefore, subject to …

Objective To compare the hospital inpatient costs between nonobese and obese patients
and estimate the economic burden of obesity in primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) …

Objective To determine whether bariatric surgery is associated with reduced health care
expenditures in a multisite cohort of predominantly older male patients with a substantial …

Objective To provide a comprehensive, multiyear analysis of health care costs by type of
procedure within a large cohort of privately insured persons who underwent bariatric surgery …