Chronic use of prescription painkillers, also known as opioids, among obese patients prior to bariatric surgery was found to continue even after surgery, in a new Kaiser Permanente study published in the iJournal of the American Medical Association/i. Researchers examined the electronic medical records of 11,719 obese patients who underwent bariatric surgery between 2005-2009 at one of 10 U.S. sites in the Scalable Partnering Network. Participating patients ...Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Chronic Use of Prescription Painkillers Continues Even After Weight Loss Surgery
Chronic use of prescription painkillers, also known as opioids, among obese patients prior to bariatric surgery was found to continue even after surgery, in a new Kaiser Permanente study published in the iJournal of the American Medical Association/i. Researchers examined the electronic medical records of 11,719 obese patients who underwent bariatric surgery between 2005-2009 at one of 10 U.S. sites in the Scalable Partnering Network. Participating patients ...
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