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Patients who had undergone GBS had more than double the risk of inpatient care for alcohol abuse postoperatively compared with patients undergoing a restrictive procedure, highlighting a need for healthcare professionals to be aware of this for early detection and treatment.

The weight reduction following obesity surgery might not be entailed by a decreased risk of obesity-related cancer with increasing follow-up time as compared with the baseline risk.

An increased need for cholecystectomy after obesity surgery was confirmed, but was probably partly due to an increased detection of gallbladder disease only because of the surgery; the individual's risk of imperative cholecystectomy was low. Therefore, prophylactic cholecystectomy might not be recommended during obesity surgery.

Gastric bypass, but not restrictive surgery, in patients with morbid obesity seems to reduce the risk of diabetes and myocardial infarction to population levels, but the risk of death remains increased.