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Volume 357:2633-2634 December 20, 2007 Number 25
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Bariatric Surgery and Mortality

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To the Editor: Sjöström et al. (Aug. 23 issue)1 report that bariatric surgery was associated with decreased long-term overall mortality, but because of statistical limitations, they were not able to determine definitively whether this finding could be explained by weight loss or by other beneficial effects of the surgery. In view of the marked reduction in cancer-related deaths in the surgery group as compared with the control group (29 vs. 47 deaths), a further specification of the types of cancer that occurred would be interesting. If the decrease in cancer-related deaths could mainly be attributed to a reduced incidence of . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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