Among bariatric surgery patients, adherence to micronutrient supplementation regimens
can be challenging. Pill burden is one of the inconveniences of traditional oral supplementation
thus inspiring alternative approaches including transdermal delivery of micronutrients
via vitamin patches. While there are marketing campaigns recommending this route;
currently, there is not any high quality data demonstrating the efficacy of vitamin
patch delivery of micronutrients. We hypothesized that despite limited data, bariatric
surgery patients are utilizing vitamin patches as their main source of micronutrient
supplementation because of the ease of use demonstrated in marketing campaigns.
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