Bariatric (Metabolic) Surgery: Evidence-Based Clinical Overview for Practicing Physicians
Epidemiology & Clinical Significance: Obesity as a Chronic Multisystem Disease As of 2022, global age-standardized prevalence stood at: Obesity is now recognized as a primary driver of multimorbidity, not merely a risk factor: Pathophysiological insight: Obesity is increasingly viewed as a neurobehavioral disorder of energy homeostasis, involving hypothalamic inflammation, leptin/insulin resistance, gut microbiota dysbiosis, and…
