New data challenges reliance on guidelines to block patients with class I obesity from having weight-loss surgery - Medical Xpress

Weight-loss surgery improves or puts into remission type 2 diabetes, reduces heart attacks and stroke and results in significant and durable weight loss, but a new study finds outdated guidelines issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) more than 30 …

Weight-loss surgery improves or puts into remission type 2 diabetes, reduces heart attacks and stroke and results in significant and durable weight loss, but a new study finds outdated guidelines iss… [+4990 chars]

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