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Researchers have found a key to sticking with a weight loss program. It's weight loss surgery.
Doctors suspect patients willing to undergo surgery may be more committed to complete the program.
But younger patients and women were more likely to drop out early.
-Study led by researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) and published in the Canadian Journal of Surgery
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