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Required pre-reading

Please ensure you have read the following before the first session with this patient:

1. Obesity Bariatric–metabolic surgery: A guide for the primary care physician
2. Bariatric operations for management of obesity indications and preoperative preparation

Recommended references

The following are recommended scholarly articles relating to this patient:

1. Obesity, weight loss and bariatric surgery
2. Bariatric surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis
3. Bariatric surgery: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis, 2003–2012
4. The bariatric surgery and weight losing: a meta-analysis in the long- and very long-term effects of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy on weight loss in adults