Reduction in weight and BMI and changes in Co-morbidities following laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding procedure for morbidly obese patients in Bahrain: a five year longitudinal study.

Jan 09, 2018

Khalid Al Khalifa1 • Claudio Violato2 • Ahmed Al Ansari3,4*

1FRCSI, Department of General Surgery, Bahrain Defense Force Hospital, West Riffa, Bahrain.

2Medical Education Research Unit, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

3MBBCH, MRCSI, MHPE, Department of General Surgery, Bahrain Defense Force Hospital, West Riffa, Bahrain.

4MBBCh, MRCSI, MHPE, University Ambrosiana and University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary AB T2N 1N4, Canada.

Al Khalifa et al. SpringerPlus 2013, 2:19

http://www.springerplus.com/content/2/1/19