Endoscopic Treatment of Obesity

Agnieszka Swidnicka-Siergiejko; Eugeniusz Wróblewski; Andrzej Dabrowski

doi:10.1155/2011/174163

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology (Jan 2011)

Endoscopic Treatment of Obesity

Agnieszka Swidnicka-Siergiejko,
Eugeniusz Wróblewski,
Andrzej Dabrowski

Affiliations

Agnieszka Swidnicka-Siergiejko: Department of Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
Eugeniusz Wróblewski: Department of Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
Andrzej Dabrowski: Department of Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/174163
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 25, no. 11
pp. 627 – 633

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: The increasing incidence of obesity and overweight among children and adolescents will be reflected by the imminent increase in the number of obese patients who require more definitive methods of treatment. There is great interest in new, safe, simple, nonsurgical procedures for weight loss.

Published in Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology

ISSN: 0835-7900 (Print); 1916-7237 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1720

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