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Device serves up 'potentially negligble' benefits for people without diabetes
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email article Individuals with obesity who opted for bariatric surgery to reduce their weight appeared to get an added benefit of a markedly reduced risk of stroke, a difference that can be measured as early as a year after undergoing the procedure, researchers reported. Using Mariner, a national all-payer claims database, Amin Andalib, MD, of McGill University/Montreal General Hospital in Canada, and colleagues determined that among the patients who underwent either sleeve gastrectomy or gastric bypass from 2010 to 2019, the risk of stroke in the first year post-surgery was 0.05% compa...