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6/28/2010
Smoking and obesity combine to make bariatric surgery riskier, particularly with respect to development of strictures and surgical-margin ulcers. Smokers compared to nonsmokers had a three-fold increase in marginal ulceration and an almost four-fold increase in strictures and fistulae.
Source: Emax Health
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