TY  - JOUR
T1  - INfluence of overweight on patients with gastric cancer after undergoing curative gastrectomy—invited critique
AU  - Lee L, Berger DH
Y1  - 2009/04/01
N1  - 10.1001/archsurg.2009.15
JO  - Archives of Surgery
SP  - 358
EP  - 358
VL  - 144
IS  - 4
N2  - 
The World Health Organization projects that by 2015 more than 1.6 billion adults will be overweight and 700 million will be obese.1 In addition, obesity has been demonstrated to be a risk factor for several abdominal malignant neoplasms.2- 4 Therefore, the effect of obesity on surgical outcomes in a cancer population is a timely issue.2,5

SN  - 0004-0010
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archsurg.2009.15
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2009.15
ER  -