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Go figure: Slimmer US regions have more bariatric surgery

By YOUR DOSE OF MEDICINE | By Charles C. Chante MD | March 26, 2006 - 12:00am

The areas with the country’s thinnest populations are also the ones where people undergo the most bariatric operations, new research shows. A 2004 analysis of the 2002 Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) revealed...

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