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Southern Philippines Medical Center Journal of Health Care Services
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(2): 1-5, 2020.
Article
in English
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-987303
ABSTRACT
@#Globally, especially in the Asian and African regions, there has been a rising burden of obesity due to high consumption of energy-dense foods and the increase of physical inactivity caused by urbanization and sedentary lifestyle changes.1 Bariatric surgery, or weight-loss surgery, remains to be the most effective treatment for morbid obesity, and it also has resulted in a substantial improvement of obesity-related comorbidities, especially type 2 diabetes mellitus.