A psychiatric perspective view of bariatric surgery patients

Abstract Background Bariatric surgery is the only procedure that has significant results in weight loss and improvements in medical comorbidities in morbid obese patients. Severely obese patients are also associated with a higher prevalence of psychiatric disorders and poor quality of life. Object...

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Main Authors: Isabel Brandão, Ana Luísa Fernandes, Eva Osório, Maria da Conceição Calhau, Rui Coelho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2015-10-01
Series:Archives of Clinical Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-60832015000500122&lng=en&tlng=en