Scientific Evidence for the Updated Guidelines on Indications for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (IFSO/ASMBS)

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of General Surgery, Rovigo Hospital, Rovigo, Italy. [email protected].
• ² Department of Surgery, Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital , and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³ Department of Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, 3801 Miranda Avenue , GS 112, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Public Health, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy.
• ⁵ Whittington Hospital, London, UK.
• ⁶ New You Medical Center, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• ⁷ Department of General Surgery, Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
• ⁸ Weight Works Clinics and Allurion Clinics, Amersfoort, The Netherlands.
• ⁹ Department of Surgery, Central Clinical School, Alfred Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ¹⁰ Center for the Treatment of Obesity and Diabetes, Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, São Paolo, Brazil.
• ¹¹ Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy.
• ¹² Gastrocirurgia de Brasilia, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil.
• ¹³ Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
• ¹⁴ Gastrointestinal Bariatric and Metabolic Center (GBMC), Jordan Hospital, Amman, Jordan.
• ¹⁵ Endocrine and Bariatric Surgery, UNAM at INCMNSZ, Mexico City, Mexico.
• ¹⁶ Cleveland Clinic Florida, The Bariatric Institute, 2950 Cleveland Clinic Blvd, Weston, FL, 33331, USA.
• ¹⁷ Bariatric Surgery Unit, Delta Chirec Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
• ¹⁸ Department of Medico Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies Sapienza Polo Pontino, ICOT Hospital Latina, Latina, Italy.
• ¹⁹ Department of Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Division of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Hazrat-e Fatemeh Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran,, Iran.
• ²⁰ Adelaide Bariatric Centre, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
• ²¹ Department of Surgery, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
• ²² Department of General and Laparoscopic Surgery, Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Unit, Ospedale Evangelico Betania, Naples, Italy.
• ²³ Department of Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
• ²⁴ South Tyneside and Sunderland Foundation NHS Trust, Sunderland, UK.
• ²⁵ General and Laparoscopic Surgery, San Giovanni di Dio Hospital - Frattamaggiore, Naples, Italy.
• ²⁶ Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK.
• ²⁷ Division of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA.
• ²⁸ UOC Chirurgia Generale e d'Urgenza, Ospedale di Montebelluna, Montebelluna, Italy.
• ²⁹ Bariatric Surgery Program, CHI Memorial Hospital, Chattanooga, TN, USA.
• ³⁰ Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ³¹ Department of Surgery, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA.
• ³² Division of Digestive Surgery and Urology, Department of Digestive Surgery, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.
• ³³ NIDDK Metabolic and Obesity Research Unit, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• ³⁴ Department of Visceral Surgery, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ³⁵ Seconda Università di Napoli, Naples, Italy.
• ³⁶ Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Università Degli Studi Di Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy.
• ³⁷ General Surgery Unit, Asst Fatebenefratelli-Sacco Milan, Milan, Italy.
• ³⁸ Department of Surgery, Prisma Health, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville, SC, USA.