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Should nutritional status be routinely assessed and corrected before bariatric surgery?

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boxed-textFlancbaum L et al. (2006) Preoperative nutritional status of patients undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity. J Gastrointest Surg 10: 1033–1037

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