title: Bariatric surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Italy. Electronic address: luca.busetto@unipd.it.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Busetto
authors.affiliation: Clinical Obesity Research, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dixon
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy.
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Luca
authors.affiliation: Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Pories
authors.affiliation: Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shikora
authors.affiliation: General and Endoscopic Surgery Unit, San Giovanni Bosco Hospital, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Angrisani
mesh_terms: D050110:Bariatric Surgery / Q000639:trends*; D015992:Body Mass Index; D009765:Obesity / Q000601:surgery*