Endocrine Abstracts

European and world-wide obesity epidemic and continuously rising prevalence of obesity necessitates long-term efficient, economically bearable and patient safe solution. Bariatric surgery (surgery for obesity – different from lifestyle, body shaping surgery), is the most effective, low risk treatment modality for morbidly obese patients in terms of total weight loss and and long-term weight maintenance, currently available.It has to be stressed howe...