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A four-week prehabilitation program in candidates for bariatric surgery improves hemodynamic load, metabolism and cardiac autonomic regulation

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Lucini, D., Malacarne, M., Pagani, M. et al. A four-week prehabilitation program in candidates for bariatric surgery improves hemodynamic load, metabolism and cardiac autonomic regulation. Acta Diabetol 58, 517–520 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00592-020-01645-y

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