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The improvement of quality of life in patients treated with bariatric surgery in Korea

Sung-Hee Oh, Hyun Jin Song, Jin‐Won Kwon, Do Joong Park, Yeon-Ji Lee, Hyejin Chun, Sun Young Kim, Kyung-Won Shim

Journal of the Korean Surgical Society · 2013 · 20 citations · 20 references

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Abstract

We demonstrated significant improvement of QoL observed after bariatric surgery compared to nonsurgical procedure. The results of this comparative study favor bariatric surgery for the treatment of severe obesity.

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