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Gastric balloons can be health-improving and cost-effective

Peer-Reviewed Publication

PLOS

Gastric balloons, placed non-invasively in the stomach, can be health-improving and cost-effective in treating obesity.

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Article Title: Cost-effectiveness of procedure-less intragastric balloon therapy as substitute or complement to bariatric surgery

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0254063


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