“…Every study had a predominantly female population (range 65-100 per cent). The vast majority of patients underwent RYGB (19 studies, 6140 patients) 4,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]38,39,41,42 , seven studies (381 patients) 4,22,26,30,32,36,40 investigated SG, three (48 patients) 28,36,38 examined laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB), two (121 patients) 37,43 included vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG), and one each duodenal switch (29 patients) 42 , biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) (26 patients) 28 and anastomosis gastric bypass (4 patients) 32 .…”