… Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for morbid obesity. We sought to assess for
racial disparities in short-term outcomes following bariatric surgery. …

… racial disparities in bariatric surgery outcomes, including higher mortality in black patients
undergoing … For this reason, the number of bariatric operations performed in the United States …

… [8] and are among the more commonly performed operations in the USA [9]. … Black
patients undergoing bariatric surgery demonstrate higher in-hospital and 30-day mortality and …

… black and white patients who had a primary metabolic and bariatric operation between …
for the accreditation of bariatric surgical facilities in the United States. The requirements for …

… In a 2016 survey of US adults, obesity and cancer were most often cited as the most serious
… to address racial and ethnic disparities in adverse events following bariatric surgery, we …

… mortality rate by approximately 51% compared to the patient with obesity who did not undergo
bariatric surgery … reported mortality differences between racial bariatric surgery cohorts are …

… to their becoming some of the most commonly performed operations in the United States. …
Per this analysis, there are significant racial disparities in perioperative outcomes, weight loss, …

… Our findings parallel those of other studies of racial disparities in bariatric surgery outcomes,
with NHB patients demonstrating higher readmission rates. Wood et al. [13] found that black …

… not report race, for the variables that we studied, race data … carry out analyses regarding
racial disparity. Our multivariate … US adult population who met BMI criteria for bariatric surgery …

… found significant racial differences in short-term outcomes following bariatric surgery. Factors
… With over 790 participating sites across the USA and Canada, the MBSAQIP data registry is …