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Bariatric surgery is associated with improved long-term survival in severely obese US veterans

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  • Melinda Maggard-Gibbons Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Aaron J Dawes Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA VA/Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Los Angeles, California, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to : Dr Melinda Maggard-Gibbons Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, 757 Westwood Plaza, B711, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; mmaggard{at}mednet.ucla.edu
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Maggard-Gibbons M, Dawes AJ
Bariatric surgery is associated with improved long-term survival in severely obese US veterans
BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 2015;20:148.

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  • First published June 18, 2015.
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October 25, 2017

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