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ReviewBMC medicine2013

Bariatric surgery: the challenges with candidate selection, individualizing treatment and clinical outcomes.

K J Neff, T Olbers, C W le Roux

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Review in BMC medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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62citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Early major complications after bariatric surgery in the USA, 2003-2014: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2018
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  4. Psychological assessment for bariatric surgery: current practices.Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery · 2014
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  9. The Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Female Fertility: A Narrative Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

K J NeffExperimental Pathology, UCD Conway Institute, School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Dublin, Ireland.
T Olbers
C W le Roux

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity is recognized as a global health crisis. Bariatric surgery offers a treatment that can reduce weight, induce remission of obesity-related diseases, and improve the quality of life. In this article, we outline the different options in bariatric surgery and summarize the recommendations for selecting and assessing potential candidates before proceeding to surgery. We present current data on post-surgical outcomes and evaluate the psychosocial and economic effects of bariatric surgery. Finally, we evaluate the complication rates and present recommendations for post-operative care.

Indexed as

Bariatric SurgeryHumansPostoperative CarePostoperative ComplicationsPrecision MedicineTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID23302153
PMCPMC3570360

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