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Letter to the Editor: Vagal Blocking (vBloc) Therapy: a New Era of Clinical Therapy for Extreme Obesity

Re: Apovian et al. Two-Year Outcomes of Vagal Nerve Blocking (vBloc) for the Treatment of Obesity in the ReCharge Trial. Obesity Surgery. 2016.

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This research was supported by grant 5-R25-CA47888, Cancer Prevention and Control Training Program grant, funded by the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.

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  1. University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Shannon K. Boi, Justin X. Moore, Kendra J. Royston & Wendy Demark-Wahnefried

  2. Graduate Biomedical Sciences – Immunology Theme, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Shannon K. Boi

  3. Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Justin X. Moore

  4. Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Kendra J. Royston

  5. Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Wendy Demark-Wahnefried

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Boi, S.K., Moore, J.X., Royston, K.J. et al. Letter to the Editor: Vagal Blocking (vBloc) Therapy: a New Era of Clinical Therapy for Extreme Obesity. OBES SURG 27, 483–484 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-016-2484-6

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