Obesity is an epidemic in America. The frequency of gastric bypass surgery is increasing. Insurance companies are more frequently paying for gastric bypass surgery, since the insurance companies recognize that treating the American epidemic of obesity is very important.

In an important article, T. Adams and co-workers (JAMA 2012; 308:1122) evaluated over 1,000 severely obese patients who had either received gastric bypass surgery, or did not have the surgery. Patients who had gastric bypass surgery…

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