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. 2017 Aug 8;189(31):E1017.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.170339.

Bariatric surgery

Sagar Rohailla  1 , Timothy D Jackson  1 , Michael Fralick  2
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Bariatric surgery

Sagar Rohailla et al. CMAJ. .
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Timothy Jackson is a consultant at Health Quality Ontario. He performs bariatric surgery only in the public system. Michael Fralick receives funding from the Eliot Phillipson Clinician–Scientist Training Program at the University of Toronto, the Clinician Investigator Program at the University of Toronto, and from the Detweiler Travelling Fellowship, funded by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. No other competing interests were declared.

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