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Bariatric surgery appears to be safe for carefully selected older, Medicare patients

Complications after bariatric surgery appear similar between patients younger and older than age 60 and also between Medicare recipients and nonrecipients, according to a study in the June issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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