%0 Journal Article %T A 23-year study of mortality and development of co-morbidities in patients with obesity undergoing bariatric surgery (laparoscopic gastric banding) in comparison with medical treatment of obesity %A Ahmed S. Zakaria %A Alessandro Saibene %A Antonio E. Pontiroli %A Chiara Osio %A Elena Tagliabue %A Franco Folli %A Giancarlo Micheletto %A Marco Fanchini %J Archive of "Cardiovascular Diabetology". %D 2018 %R 10.1186/s12933-018-0801-1 %X The online version of this article (10.1186/s12933-018-0801-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users %K Bariatric surgery %K Survival %K Adjustable gastric banding %K Diabetes mellitus %K Cancer %K Cardiovascular disease %K Exemptions %K Hospital admissions %K Obesity %K Mortality %K Prevention of diabetes %K Prevention of cardiovascular disease %K ICD10 %K Kaplan¨CMeier %K Cox proportional hazards model %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6311074/