The study, presented at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, found that fractures were 2.3 times more prevalent for patients who had bariatric surgery. The mean time to first fracture was six years, with a mean follow-up of nine years.
Research involved a retrospective study of 258 bariatric surgery patients. The average age of patients was 44, and 83 percent of them were female.
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