Fourteen-Year Long-Term Results after Gastric Banding

Table 5

Excess body weight loss in comparison with literature.

Author	Year	𝑛		EWL in %
Years of FUP			1	2	3	5	8	10	12	14
Belachewet al. [24]	2002	763	40	50.0				50
O’Brien and Dixon[25]	2002	706	47	52	53.0	57.0
Weiner et al. [26]	2003	984					59.3
Martikainen et al. [27]	2004	123	36	38		30.0
Biagini and Karam[28]	2008	591	66.7	72.6			82.3
	2009	200	40.2	46.3	45.9	41.9	33.3	30.8	33.3	15.6
Strohet al. [2]			𝑛=175	𝑛=157	𝑛=147	𝑛=122	𝑛=80	𝑛=53	𝑛=15	𝑛=1