San Diego Union Tribune: UB research cited in story on weight-loss surgery

Release Date: September 21, 2008 This content is archived.

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An article in the San Diego Union Tribune on patients who travel to Tijuana for weight-loss surgery, which costs half as much in Mexico as it does in the U.S., reports that a study by UB researchers found that the suicide rate among adult weight-loss surgery patients was more than double that of obese adults who didn't have the surgeries

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