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Anecdotally, health systems have closed hospital-based metabolic bariatric surgery programs due to decreased demand, but empirical data on the association of increased prescribing of GLP-1 [receptor agonists] with use of metabolic bariatric surgery is unavailable, to our knowledge, Kevin Lin, BA, from Harvard Medical School, and colleagues wrote in JAMA Network Open

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