Barely Significant
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Long term patient perspectives following all types of bariatric surgery: A 19-year follow-up study.

Obes Pillars · 2026 · PMC13066946 · PMID 41969621

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approaching significancep = 0.05actually significant
Expectation-outcome discrepancies were associated with reduced weight loss approaching significance (t = −1.99, df = 58, p = 0.05) and significantly lower likelihood of hypothetical surgical reconsideration compared to participants reporting expectation-outcome congruence (t = 2.51, df = 58, p = 0.01).

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