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  1. Department of Surgery, School of Community Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, USA

    Christopher J. Jarrett & Zhamak Khorgami

  2. Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

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Jarrett, C.J., Khorgami, Z. Comments on the Use of Visceral Adiposity Index to Predict Diabetes Remission in Low BMI Chinese Patients after Bariatric Surgery. OBES SURG 31, 2302–2303 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-020-05194-9

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