Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
Volume 3, Issue 6 , Pages 631-635 , November 2007

Influence of obesity and surgical weight loss on thyroid hormone levels

This study was presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, June 11–16, 2007, San Diego, California

Received 12 May 2007 ,Revised 6 July 2007 ,Accepted 24 July 2007.

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PII: S1550-7289(07)00576-X

doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2007.07.011

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
Volume 3, Issue 6 , Pages 631-635 , November 2007

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