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Must weight be reduced before surgery?

Publication: Clinician Reviews
Publication Date: 01-AUG-03 		Format: Online - approximately 308 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Must weight be reduced before surgery?(Hospital & Surgical Update)

Article Excerpt
Obese patients are often advised to lose weight before undergoing elective surgery, but Swiss researchers have demonstrated that obesity alone does not increase a patient's risk for complications after general surgery.

In a prospective study, Dindo and associates enrolled 6,336 surgical patients--none of whom was undergoing vascular, thoracic, or...

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