BARIATRIC SURGERY

Increasing prevalence of overweight among US adults. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1960 to 1991

1994 • 2,623 citations

Gastrointestinal Surgery for Severe Obesity

1991 • 2,142 citations

Biliopancreatic Diversion with a Duodenal Switch

1998 • 988 citations

Health Implications of Overweight and Obesity in the United States

1985 • 919 citations

Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch

1998 • 643 citations

Biliopancreatic diversion for obesity at eighteen years

1996 • 405 citations

Excessive Mortality and Causes of Death in Morbidly Obese Men

1980 • 405 citations

Total Knee Arthroplasty in Morbidly Obese Patients*

1998 • 354 citations

Obesity and mortality: a review of the epidemiologic data

1997 • 338 citations

Prospective study of a laparoscopically placed, adjustable gastric band in the treatment of morbid obesity

1999 • 327 citations

Morbidity of severely obese subjects

1992 • 324 citations

Gastric bypass for treating severe obesity

1992 • 323 citations

The weight reduction operation of choice: Vertical banded gastroplasty or gastric bypass?

1996 • 299 citations

Overweight Is Risking Fate

1987 • 297 citations

Conversion of proximal to distal gastric bypass for failed gastric bypass for superobesity

1997 • 270 citations

Increasing Prevalence of Overweight Among US Low-income Preschool Children: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance, 1983 to 1995

1998 • 267 citations

Economic Costs of Obesity

2014 • 266 citations

Weight Loss in Severely Obese Subjects Prevents the Progression of Impaired Glucose Tolerance to Type II Diabetes: A longitudinal interventional study

1994 • 227 citations

Mortality of severely obese subjects

1992 • 203 citations

The role of gastric surgery in the multidisciplinary management of severe obesity

1995 • 196 citations

Psychiatric Care of the Medical Patient

1994 • 190 citations

Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass, Roux en-Y: Technique and Results in 75 Patients With 3-30 Months Follow-up

1996 • 190 citations

Social and economic effects of body weight in the United States

1996 • 161 citations

Reoperative Bariatric Surgery

1993 • 146 citations

Prospective evaluation of gastric acid secretion and cobalamin absorption following gastric bypass for clinically severe obesity

1994 • 143 citations

Malabsorptive procedures for severe obesity: comparison of pancreaticobiliary bypass and very very long limb Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

1999 • 121 citations

Prospective Evaluation of Vertical Banded Gastroplasty as the Primary Operation for Morbid Obesity

1991 • 113 citations

The Swedish Adjustable Gastric Banding (SAGB) for Morbid Obesity: 9 Year Experience and a 4-year Follow-up of Patients Operated with a New Adjustable Band

1997 • 107 citations

Severe Obesity: Expensive to Society, Frustrating to Treat, But Important to Confront

1995 • 95 citations

Results of Bariatric Surgery for Morbid Obesity in Patients Older than 50 Years

1995 • 86 citations

Excessive mortality and causes of death in morbidly obese men

1980 • 58 citations

Cost‐benefit Analysis for the Treatment of Severe Obesity

1998 • 50 citations

Prospective investigation of complications, reoperations, and sustained weight loss with an adjustable gastric banding device for treatment of morbid obesity,

1998 • 35 citations

Trends in the prevalence of obesity among Belgian men at work, 1977–1992

1998 • 21 citations

[Osteoarticular pathology and massive obesity].

1993 • 2 citations