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Contact: Russell Rian
russell.rian@utsouthwestern.edu
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UT Southwestern Medical Center
Caption: Dr. Edward Livingston, chairman of GI/endocrine surgery, participated in the first large-scale review of weight-loss surgeries performed on older adults. The study showed that older patients experienced less weight loss and far more complications than younger patients.
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