The Effect of Laparoscopic Gastric Banding Surgeryon Plasma Levels of Appetite-Control, Insulinotropic, and Digestive Hormones

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Due to a production error, the following corrections were not incorporated into the text of the article (also in this issue) before it was published online. Springer regrets the error.Third page of the articlesecond columnunder BCharacteristics of the Study Population and %EWL after LAGB"-third paragraph:The paragraph should read,The Lap-Band surgery was successful; for the study population as a whole, %EWL was 31.2 (23.1-37.5) at 6 months and 45.7 (39.1-52.6) at 12 months after LAGB. BMI decreased significantly ( p < 0.001) from the baseline median of 43.2 (40.4-49.6) to 35.3 (33.9-40.3) at 6 months and 33.8 (30.9-37.7) at 12 months ( Fig. 1a; Supp Table 1).Fifth page of the articlesecond columnunder BInsulinotropic Hormone Levels in Relation to LAGB"first paragraphfirst sentence:The sentence should read, Before surgery, median (IQR), plasma concentrations (pg/ml) of insulin, GIP, and GLP-1 were 209 (144-419), 3.