Trends and Practices in Bariatric Surgery in Egypt: Insights on Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) Utilization and Surgical Volumes.

Available data only provide rough estimates of an increasing trend in both obesity and the number of surgeries, which impairs the development of effective public health strategies and interventions [ 7 , 34 ].

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However, there was an observed trend indicating that surgeons in higher-volume centers were more likely to selectively offer pre-operative EGD compared to those in lower-volume centers at preoperative EGD, 1-year postoperative EGD (Fig. 3 ), and 2–3 years surveillance EGD (Fig. 4 ).

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