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Ursodeoxycholic Acid in the Prevention of Gallstone Formation after Bariatric Surgery: A Meta-analysis | Semantic Scholar

@article{Uy2008UrsodeoxycholicAI,
  title={Ursodeoxycholic Acid in the Prevention of Gallstone Formation after Bariatric Surgery: A Meta-analysis},
  author={Manley C. Uy and Marilyn C. Talingdan-Te and Wendell Z. Espinosa and Ma. Lourdes O. Daez and Janus P. Ong},
  journal={Obesity Surgery},
  year={2008},
  volume={18},
  pages={1532-1538},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:207302960}
}

UDCA can prevent gallstone formation after bariatric surgery and is heterogeneous with I2 of 61.9%, the directions of the effect are all consistently in favor of UDCA.

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