[Centers for bariatric medicine : why and how ?]

Obesity is a chronic, complex and relapsing disease. Because of this complexity, work up and follow up of affected patients implicate different specialists, working in synergy to diagnose and treat obesity and its complications. This follow up is specialized, and should be available in integrated centers of bariatric medicine offering all modalities of treatments with proven efficacy, whether medical, surgical or psychotherapeutical.
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