*Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
†Center for Bariatric Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
‡Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
§Hospital Clínic Universitari, Barcelona, Spain
¶Department of Surgery, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
||Department of Surgery, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
**Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart & Vascular Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
††Endocrine and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
‡‡CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Reprints: Ali Aminian, MD, Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, M61, Cleveland, OH 44195. E-mail: [email protected].
Presentation: This study was presented at the 137th Annual Meeting of the American Surgical Association, Philadelphia, PA; April 20–22, 2017.
The authors report no conflicts of interest related to this study.