%0 Journal Article %T Patient Perspective in Obesity Surgery: Goals for Weight Loss and Improvement of Body Shape in a Prospective Cohort Study %A Beat-Peter M¨šller-Stich %A Christian Tapking %A Felix Nickel %A Johannes Sander %A Lars Fischer %A Lukas Schmidt %A Thomas Bruckner %J Archive of "Obesity Facts". %D 2018 %R 10.1159/000493372 %X Obesity surgery provides sustainable weight loss, improvement of comorbidities, and improved quality of life (QOL). There is few evidence on the patient perspective and goals. This study compared expected and achieved weight loss, body shape, and QOL %K Obesity %K Patient perspective %K Quality of life %K Body shape %K Expectation %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6341368/