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Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding in the treatment of obesity: a systematic literature review.

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Laparoscopic gastric banding is safer than VBG and RYGB, in terms of short-term mortality rates, and evaluation by randomized controlled trials is recommended to define its merits relative to the comparator procedures.
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This article is published in Surgery.The article was published on 2004-03-01. It has received 522 citations till now.

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Adjustable gastric banding and conventional therapy for type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial.

TL;DR: People randomized to surgical therapy were more likely to achieve remission of type 2 diabetes through greater weight loss, and these results need to be confirmed in a larger, more diverse population and have long-term efficacy assessed.
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The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of bariatric (weight loss) surgery for obesity: a systematic review and economic evaluation

TL;DR: Bariatric surgery was a more effective intervention for weight loss than non-surgical options and there was higher remission of Type 2 diabetes than in non-Surgical groups.
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: Improvement in liver histological analysis with weight loss.

TL;DR: In conclusion, weight loss after surgery provides major improvement or resolution of obesity and metabolic syndrome‐associated abnormal liver histological features in severely obese subjects.
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Interdisciplinary European Guidelines on Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery

TL;DR: The 2008 Interdisciplinary European Guidelines on Surgery of Severe Obesity produced was revised and update by focusing in particular on the evidence gathered in relation to the effects on diabetes and the changes in the recommendations of patient eligibility criteria.
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Who would have thought it? An operation proves to be the most effective therapy for adult-onset diabetes mellitus.

TL;DR: The gastric bypass operation provides long-term control of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and antidiabetic effects appear to be due primarily to a reduction in caloric intake, suggesting that insulin resistance is a secondary protective effect rather than the initial lesion.
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Body weight and mortality among women

TL;DR: A J-shaped relation between body-mass index and overall mortality is observed and when women who had never smoked were examined separately, no increase in risk was observed among the leaner women, and a more direct relation between weight and mortality emerged.
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Effects of recombinant leptin therapy in a child with congenital leptin deficiency.

TL;DR: The administration of leptin corrects their obesity by reducing their food intake and increasing their energy expenditure and these mice also have hyperinsulinemia, corticosterone excess, and infertility, which also are reversed by treatment with leptin.
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Outcomes After Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Morbid Obesity

TL;DR: Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is effective in achieving weight loss and in improving comorbidities and quality of life while reducing recovery time and perioperative complications and in patients with more than 1 year of follow-up.
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