Smoking Is Associated with More Abdominal Fat in Morbidly Obese Patients

• Raquel Chatkin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raquel Chatkin, José Miguel Chatkin, Lucas Spanemberg

  Affiliations Center of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome, Hospital São Lucas da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Post-Graduation Program in Medicine and Health Science, School of Medicine Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

  ⨯
• José Miguel Chatkin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raquel Chatkin, José Miguel Chatkin, Lucas Spanemberg

  * E-mail: jmchatkin@pucrs.br

  Affiliation Post-Graduation Program in Medicine and Health Science, School of Medicine Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

  ⨯
• Lucas Spanemberg ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raquel Chatkin, José Miguel Chatkin, Lucas Spanemberg

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Hospital São Lucas da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

  ⨯
• Daniela Casagrande ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Center of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome, Hospital São Lucas da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

  ⨯
• Mario Wagner ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Post-Graduation Program in Medicine and Health Science, School of Medicine Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

  ⨯
• Cláudio Mottin

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Center of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome, Hospital São Lucas da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Post-Graduation Program in Medicine and Health Science, School of Medicine Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

  ⨯