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Metabolic Surgery Needs Stronger Endorsement in Asian T2DM Patients with Low BMI

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  1. Wah Yang and Cunchuan Wang contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

    Wah Yang & Cunchuan Wang

  2. Joint Institute of Metabolic Medicine Between State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, The University of Hong Kong and Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

    Wah Yang & Cunchuan Wang

  3. State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Wah Yang

  4. Department of Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Wah Yang

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Yang, W., Wang, C. & on behalf of Chinese Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Collaborative. Metabolic Surgery Needs Stronger Endorsement in Asian T2DM Patients with Low BMI. OBES SURG 32, 212–213 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-021-05636-y

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