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Obesity: surgical treatment

Australia

• Australian Family Physician
  • Management of bariatric patients beyond the scalpel [2017]
  • Bariatric–metabolic surgery: A guide for the primary care physician [2017]
  • The bariatric surgery patient – nutrition considerations [2013]

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Weight loss surgery in Australia 2014–15: Australian hospital statistics [2017]

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • Bariatric surgery [2025]
  • Comorbidities of obesity and preconception counselling: Consideration of bariatric surgery [2022]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Fertility, pregnancy and post partum management after bariatric surgery: a narrative review [2022]

• Obesity Surgery
  • Online Search Trends Related to Bariatric Surgery and Their Relationship with Utilization in Australia [2024]

Austria

• Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
  • Fertility, Pregnancy and Lactation After Bariatric Surgery – a Consensus Statement from the OEGGG [2018]

• Obesity Surgery
  • The Timing of Pregnancies After Bariatric Surgery has No Impact on Children's Health-a Nationwide Population-based Registry Analysis [2023]

Brazil

• Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
  • Brazilian national bariatric registry - pilot study [2023]
  • Trends in bariatric surgeries in the Brazilian Federative Units, 2009-2019: a descriptive study [2022]
  • The recommendations of the Brazilian College of Surgeons and the Brazilian Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Societies on the return of bariatric and metabolic operations in geographic regions of the country where the procedures have been allowed by local policies, in the period of COVID-19 pandemic [2020]

Canada

• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
  • Body Mass Index as a Measure of Obesity and Cut-Off for Surgical Eligibility [2022]
  • Bariatric Surgery for the Long-Term Treatment of Obesity: A Review of the Clinical Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness [2016]
  • Obstetric, Neonatal, and Child Outcomes for Women with Previous Bariatric Surgery: A Review of the Clinical Evidence [2014]
  • Bariatric Surgical Procedures for Obese and Morbidly Obese Patients: A Review of Comparative Clinical and Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines [2014]

• Canadian Association of Bariatric Physicians and Surgeons
  • Guidelines for Canadian bariatric surgical and medical centres: a statement from the Canadian Association of Bariatric Physicians and Surgeons [2022]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Medication management and pharmacokinetic changes after bariatric surgery [2020]

• Obesity Canada
  • Bariatric Surgery: Surgical Options and Outcomes [2020]
  • Bariatric Surgery: Selection and Preoperative Work-up [2020]
  • Bariatric Surgery: Postoperative Management [2020]

• Ontario Health
  • Bariatric Surgery for Adults With Class I Obesity and Difficult-to-Manage Type 2 Diabetes: A Health Technology Assessment [2023]

• Pediatric Obesity
  • Effectiveness of surgical interventions for managing obesity in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis framed using minimal important difference estimates based on GRADE guidance to inform a clinical practice guideline [2024]

China

• BioScience Trends
  • Formulation and interpretation of the Chinese Guidelines for Surgical Treatment of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus [2021]

• Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
  • Metabolic and bariatric surgery in China: A summary of the Greater China Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Database and comparison with other international registry databases [2023]

Denmark

• International Journal of Obesity
  • Use of proton pump inhibitors after laparoscopic gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy: a nationwide register-based cohort study [2024]

Europe

• European Association for Endoscopic Surgery
  • Clinical practice guidelines of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) on bariatric surgery: update 2020 endorsed by IFSO-EC, EASO and ESPCOP [2020]

• European Association for the Study of Obesity
  • Practical Recommendations of the Obesity Management Task Force of the European Association for the Study of Obesity for the Post-Bariatric Surgery Medical Management [2017]
  • Interdisciplinary European Guidelines on Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery [2013]

• European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
  • Indications and limitations of bariatric intervention in severely obese children and adolescents with and without nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: ESPGHAN Hepatology committee position statement [2015]

• European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  • Curriculum for bariatric endoscopy and endoscopic treatment of the complications of bariatric surgery: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) Position Statement [2023]

• International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders
  • Development of the International Federation for Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders-European Chapter (IFSO-EC) Grade-Based Guidelines on the Surgical Treatment of Obesity Using Multimodal Strategies: Design and Methodological Aspects [2024]

• Obesity Surgery
  • Clinical Indications, Utilization, and Funding of Bariatric Surgery in Europe [2014]

Europe, United States

• American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  • American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy-European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy guideline on primary endoscopic bariatric and metabolic therapies for adults with obesity [2024]

France

• Société Française et Francophone de Chirurgie de l'Obésité et des Maladies Métaboliques
  • Position statement and guidelines about Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty (ESG) also known as "Endo-sleeve" [2025]
  • Recommendations for nutritional care after bariatric surgery: Recommendations for best practice and SOFFCO-MM/AFERO/SFNCM/expert consensus [2021]
  • SOFFCO-MM guidelines for the resumption of bariatric and metabolic surgery during and after the Covid-19 pandemic [2020]

High-income countries

• PLoS Medicine
  • Association of bariatric surgery with all-cause mortality and incidence of obesity-related disease at a population level: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Medical Journal
  • Recommendations for eligibility criteria concerning bariatric and metabolic surgical and endoscopic procedures for obese Hong Kong adults 2024: Hong Kong Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Position Statement [2024]

India

• Obesity Surgery
  • Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society of India (OSSI) Recommendations for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic [2020]

International

• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
  • 2022 American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) and International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO): Indications for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery [2022]

• BMC Surgery
  • Update on comparison of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: a systematic review and meta-analysis of weight loss, comorbidities, and quality of life at 5 years [2024]

• Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
  • Guidelines for Perioperative Care in Bariatric Surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society Recommendations: A 2021 Update [2022]
  • Guidelines for Perioperative Care in Bariatric Surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society Recommendations [2016]

• Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Quality evaluation of metabolic and bariatric surgical guidelines [2023]

• International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders
  • Scientific evidence for the updated guidelines on indications for metabolic and bariatric surgery (IFSO/ASMBS) [2024]
  • Metabolic Bariatric Surgery Across the IFSO Chapters: Key Insights on the Baseline Patient Demographics, Procedure Types, and Mortality from the Eighth IFSO Global Registry Report [2024]
  • International consensus position statement on the role of obesity management medications in the context of metabolic bariatric surgery: expert guideline by the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO) [2024]
  • IFSO Worldwide Survey 2020-2021: Current Trends for Bariatric and Metabolic Procedures [2024]
  • IFSO Consensus on Definitions and Clinical Practice Guidelines for Obesity Management-an International Delphi Study [2024]
  • IFSO Bariatric Endoscopy Committee Evidence-Based Review and Position Statement on Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty for Obesity Management [2024]
  • Summarizing Consensus Guidelines on Obesity Management: A Joint, Multidisciplinary Venture of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity & Metabolic Disorders (IFSO) and World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) [2023]
  • Methodology and Results of a Joint IFSO-WGO Delphi Survey of 94 Intercontinental, Interdisciplinary Experts in Obesity Management [2023]
  • Bariatric Surgery Survey 2018: Similarities and Disparities Among the 5 IFSO Chapters [2021]
  • Recommendations for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic from IFSO [2020]
  • Indications for Surgery for Obesity and Weight-Related Diseases: Position Statements from the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO) [2016]

• International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus
  • Gastro-esophageal diagnostic workup before bariatric surgery or endoscopic treatment for obesity: position statement of the International Society of Diseases of the Esophagus [2024]

• Nature Reviews Endocrinology
  • International consensus on the diagnosis and management of dumping syndrome [2020]

• Obesity Reviews
  • Pregnancy after bariatric surgery: Consensus recommendations for periconception, antenatal and postnatal care [2019]

• Obesity Surgery
  • Quality of Life After Bariatric Surgery-a Systematic Review with Bayesian Network Meta-analysis [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Impact of bariatric surgery on premenopausal women's womanliness: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis [2024]

• Scientific Reports
  • International expert consensus on the current status and future prospects of artificial intelligence in metabolic and bariatric surgery [2025]
  • Current recommendations for procedure selection in class I and II obesity developed by an expert modified Delphi consensus [2024]

• World Journal of Emergency Surgery
  • Operative management of acute abdomen after bariatric surgery in the emergency setting: the OBA guidelines [2022]
  • The Operative management in Bariatric Acute abdomen (OBA) Survey: long-term complications of bariatric surgery and the emergency surgeon’s point of view [2020]

Ireland

• Health Information and Quality Authority
  • HTA of metabolic surgery for comorbid T2D and obesity [2022]

Israel

• Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
  • Practices and attitudes of bariatric surgeons in Israel during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic [2020]

Italy

• Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
  • Laparoscopic bariatric surgery is safe during phase 2–3 of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: A multicenter, prospective, observational study [2021]

• Eating and Weight Disorders
  • SICOB-endorsed national Delphi consensus on obesity treatment optimization: focus on diagnosis, pre-operative management, and weight regain/insufficient weight loss approach [2023]

• Nutrients
  • Development of the Italian Clinical Practice Guidelines on Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery: Design and Methodological Aspects [2022]

• Obesity Surgery
  • Evolution of Bariatric Surgery in Italy in the Last 11 Years: Data from the SICOB Yearly National Survey [2023]

• Surgical Endoscopy
  • Enhanced recovery after bariatric surgery: an Italian consensus statement [2022]

• Updates in Surgery
  • Bariatric surgery and the COVID-19 pandemic: SICOB recommendations on how to perform surgery during the outbreak and when to resume the activities in phase 2 of lockdown [2020]

Japan

• Diabetology International
  • Metabolic surgery in treatment of obese Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes: a joint consensus statement from the Japanese Society for Treatment of Obesity, the Japan Diabetes Society, and the Japan Society for the Study of Obesity [2021]

• Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Verification of Safety and Efficacy of Sleeve Gastrectomy Based on National Registry by Japanese Society for Treatment of Obesity [2023]

• Journal of Gastroenterology
  • Current status of bariatric surgery in Japan and effectiveness in obesity and diabetes [2014]

Latin America

• International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders
  • COVID-19: IFSO LAC Recommendations for the Resumption of Elective Bariatric Surgery [2020]

Middle East, North Africa

• Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
  • Bariatric surgery in the Middle East and North Africa: narrative review with focus on culture-specific considerations [2021]

Nigeria

• Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal
  • Obesity and the Need for Bariatric Surgery in Nigeria: A Review [2024]

Pakistan

• Annals of Medicine and Surgery
  • Implications of bariatric surgery and recommendations for Pakistan [2022]

Poland

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Cost of Surgical Treatment of Obesity and Its Impact on Healthcare Expense-Nationwide Data from a Polish Registry [2023]

• Polish Journal of Surgery
  • Current trends in bariatric surgery in patients older than 65 years in Poland [2024]

Republic of Korea

• Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Metabolic Surgery in Korea: What to Consider before Surgery [2017]
  • Current Status of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery in Korea [2016]

• Obesity Surgery
  • Nationwide Survey on Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery in Korea: 2003–2013 Results [2016]

Spain

• Cirugía Española (English Edition)
  • Quality Criteria in Bariatric Surgery: Consensus Review and Recommendations of the Spanish Association of Surgeons and the Spanish Society of Bariatric Surgery [2017]

Sweden

• Diabetes Care
  • Association of Bariatric Surgery With Cancer Incidence in Patients With Obesity and Diabetes: Long-term Results From the Swedish Obese Subjects Study [2022]

• Obesity Surgery
  • Prediction of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) after bariatric surgery using regularized linear regression models: results from a Swedish nationwide quality register [2023]
  • Non-response After Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy-the Theoretical Need for Revisional Bariatric Surgery: Results from the Scandinavian Obesity Surgery Registry [2023]

• Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
  • High estimated prevalence of bariatric surgery in young adults treated for pediatric obesity [2021]

United Kingdom

• Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
  • Referral for bariatric surgery [2024]

• British Obesity & Metabolic Surgery Society
  • Variation and outcomes of liver-reducing dietary regimens before bariatric surgery: a national retrospective cohort study [2023]
  • British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society Guidelines on perioperative and postoperative biochemical monitoring and micronutrient replacement for patients undergoing bariatric surgery—2020 update [2020]

• Health Technology Assessment
  • Clinical outcomes and adverse events of bariatric surgery in adults with severe obesity in Scotland: the SCOTS observational cohort study [2024]

• JRSM Open
  • Eligibility for bariatric surgery among adults in England: analysis of a national cross-sectional survey [2014]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty for obesity [2024]
  • Single-anastomosis duodeno-ileal bypass with sleeve gastrectomy for treating morbid obesity [2016]
  • Laparoscopic gastric plication for the treatment of severe obesity [2012]

• NHS England
  • Specialised and complex obesity surgery for children [2017]
  • Obesity surgery for children with severe complex obesity [2017]
  • Complex and Specialised Obesity Surgery [2013]

• Nutrients
  • Preconception and Pregnancy Nutrition Support for Women with a History of Bariatric Surgery: A Mixed-Methods Survey of Healthcare Professionals in the UK [2023]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Bariatric Surgery in the United Kingdom: A Cohort Study of Weight Loss and Clinical Outcomes in Routine Clinical Care [2015]

• Society for Endocrinology
  • Society for Endocrinology guidelines for the diagnosis and management of post-bariatric hypoglycaemia [2024]

• Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee
  • Revision Surgery for Severe and Complex Obesity (Adults) [2023]
  • Obesity Surgery for Complex and Severe Obesity - Level 4 (Adults), Service Specification [2023]
  • Obesity Surgery for Complex and Severe Obesity - Level 4 (Adults), Commissioning Policy [2023]

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Short- and Long-Term Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery in the Medicare Population [2018]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Pediatric Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: Evidence, Barriers, and Best Practices [2019]
  • Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery for Pediatric Patients With Severe Obesity [2019]

• American Association of Clinical Endocrinology
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Perioperative Nutrition, Metabolic, and Nonsurgical Support of Patients Undergoing Bariatric Procedures - 2019 Update: Cosponsored by American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists/American College of Endocrinology, The Obesity Society, American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Obesity Medicine Association, and American Society of Anesthesiologists [2020]

• American Gastroenterological Association
  • AGA Institute Quality Measure Development for Intragastric Balloons in the Management of Obesity [2022]
  • Intragastric Balloons in the Management of Obesity: Clinical Decision Support Tool [2021]
  • AGA Clinical Practice Update on Evaluation and Management of Early Complications After Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery: Expert Review [2021]

• American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  • The role of endoscopy in the bariatric surgery patient [2015]
  • ASGE position statement on endoscopic bariatric therapies in clinical practice [2015]
  • ASGE Bariatric Endoscopy Task Force systematic review and meta-analysis assessing the ASGE PIVI thresholds for adopting endoscopic bariatric therapies [2015]

• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
  • Cannabis use before and after metabolic and bariatric surgery: literature review [2025]
  • American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: postoperative care pathway guidelines for Roux-en-Y gastric bypass [2025]
  • American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery review of the body mass index [2025]
  • American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Review of Body Composition [2025]
  • American society for metabolic and bariatric surgery: intra-operative care pathway for minimally invasive Roux-en-Y gastric bypass [2024]
  • American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery position statement on describing and coding paraesophageal hernia repair with concurrent bariatric surgery [2024]
  • American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery 2022 estimate of metabolic and bariatric procedures performed in the United States [2024]
  • Metabolic bone changes after bariatric surgery: 2020 update, American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Clinical Issues Committee position statement [2021]
  • Safer through surgery: American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery statement regarding metabolic and bariatric surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic [2020]
  • American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery updated statement on single-anastomosis duodenal switch [2020]
  • ASMBS position statement on the relationship between obesity and cancer, and the role of bariatric surgery: risk, timing of treatment, effects on disease biology, and qualification for surgery [2020]
  • ASMBS pediatric metabolic and bariatric surgery guidelines, 2018 [2018]

• Annals of Surgery
  • Disparity Between United States Adolescent Class II and III Obesity Trends and Bariatric Surgery Utilization, 2015-2018 [2022]

• Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
  • Perinatal Care for People With a History of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: AWHONN Practice Brief #19 [2023]

• BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care
  • Incidence of metabolic and bariatric surgery among US adults with obesity by diabetes status: 2016-2020 [2025]

• Cureus
  • Evaluating the Correlation of Bariatric Surgery and the Prevalence of Cancers in Obese Patients: A Study of the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) Database [2022]

• Endocrine Society
  • Endocrine and Nutritional Management of the Post-Bariatric Surgery Patient: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline [2010]

• Implementation Science
  • Bariatric surgery implementation trends in the USA from 2002 to 2012 [2016]

• Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Beyond BMI: the need for new guidelines governing the use of bariatric and metabolic surgery [2014]

• Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal
  • Surgical Strategies for the Management of Obesity [2025]

• Obesity Surgery
  • Current Trends in the Utilization of a Robotic Approach in the Field of Bariatric Surgery [2023]

• Seminars in Pediatric Surgery
  • Preoperative considerations for the pediatric patient undergoing metabolic and bariatric surgery [2020]

• Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
  • SAGES guidelines for the management of comorbidities relevant to metabolic and bariatric surgery [2025]
  • Updated Panel Report: Best Practices for the Surgical Treatment of Obesity [2018]

• StatPearls
  • Sleeve Gastrectomy

• Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
  • Breastfeeding in metabolic and bariatric patients: a comprehensive guide for surgeons, patients, and the multidisciplinary team [2025]
  • Bariatric surgery improves outcomes of hospitalizations for acute heart failure: a contemporary, nationwide analysis [2023]

• Surgical Endoscopy
  • Bariatric surgery: trends in utilization, complications, conversions and revisions [2024]

• Therapeutic Advances in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  • Endobariatric procedures for obesity: clinical indications and available options [2021]

• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Endoscopic Bariatric Interventions versus Lifestyle Interventions or Surgery for Weight Loss in Patients with Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2022]
  • Mental Health Assessment and Psychosocial Interventions for Bariatric Surgery [2014]

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