AUG 14, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Medication Costs and Disease Burden in Obesity: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Obesity Surgery
Real-world retrospective cohort with consistent improvements in medication costs, comorbidity prevalence, and disease burden over 3 years, but lacks control group and randomization, limiting causal inference.
Reported
Mean annual pharmacotherapy cost…€56.11
p-value for pharmacotherapy cost…< 0.05
Prevalence reduction: dyslipidemia32%