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8/30/09 Interview 2

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Surgeon Taewan Kim MD and patient Marsha Dillon chronicle the transformative physical and emotional journey involved in bariatric surgery.

Health Information Center Resources for Bariatric Surgery:

• Large-scale Analysis Finds Bariatric Surgery Relatively Safe, from Science Daily, July 9 2009.
• Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, by Henry Buchwald, MD, PhD., from JAMA, volume 292, pages 1724-1737, 2004.
• World's Largest Bariatric Surgery Patient Database Exceeding 120,000 Patients Will Support Best Practices Development, from Medical News Today.
• NIH Study Finds Low Short-term Risks After Bariatric Surgery for Extreme Obesity, from the National Institute of Health.
• Low Short-term Risks After Bariatric Surgery For Extreme Obesity, Study Suggests, from Science Daily, August 4, 2009.
• How Weight Loss Helps the Heart: Study Found it Reversed Structural Abnormalities Seen Among the Obese, from Medline Plus, August 11, 2009.
• Perioperative Safety in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery, from Pubmed and the New England Journal of Medicine, volume 361(5), pages 445-54, 2009 July 30.

Books:

• Weight-loss Surgery With the Adjustable Gastric Band: Everything You Need to Know Before and After Surgery to Lose Weight Successfully, by Robert W Sewell, from Da Capo Lifelong/Perseus Books Group, 2008.
• Is Weight Loss Surgery Right For You?, by Robin F Apple, from Oxford University Press, 2006.

Books available through bookstores and libraries, including the Health Information Library at Upstate and at Amazon.com.

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