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Surgical procedures for 25% weight loss
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Surgical procedures for 25% weight loss

There are different surgical procedures that can help with 25% weight loss. Mr. Ahmed Ahmed talks about such procedures in this video.

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What kind of surgical procedures are available for 25% or higher weight loss? In the field of bariatric surgery at the moment, to achieve 25% weight loss would require either a laparoscopic, which means keyhole surgery, sleeve gastrectomy procedure or a laparoscopic gastric bypass procedure. Previously, the gastric band was very popular in the 80s and 90s, but we now know that that procedure usually gives around 20% weight loss.

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