title: Lifting the unbearable weight of morbid obesity.
authors.forename: Samer G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Mattar
mesh_terms: D050110:Bariatric Surgery; D015897:Comorbidity; D017281:Cost of Illness; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D015995:Prevalence; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology