Providing support to help people with prediabetes make small changes to their lifestyle, diet and physical activity can almost halve the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according the results of the Norfolk Diabetes Prevention Study (NDPS) the largest diabetes prevention research study in the world in the last 30 years.

The LINX Reflux Management System provides effective long-term control of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and eliminates the need for daily reflux medications in 79% of patients according to the study, ‘Six to 12-year outcomes of magnetic sphincter augmentation (MSA) for gastroesophageal reflux disease’, published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports.

On 29th September 2020, the International Bariatric Club (IBC) hosted the 16th iteration in its series of IBC ‘Oxford Hot Topics in Surgery’ webinars, entitled ‘Banded sleeve gastrectomy - Is there a method to this madness?’. The webinar featured presentations from world renowned experts in banded sleeve gastrectomy including Professors Phil Schauer (USA) and Jodok Fink (Germany), and Dr Paolo Gentileschi (Italy), as well as a video presentation by Dr Mohit Bhandari (India).

The standard approach of assessing long-term risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) works just as well for patients who are overweight as they do for patients at an optimal weight, according to a study by researchers from Yale and published in the JAMA Network Open.

Kidney transplants are frequently denied to patients with obesity, partly due to an increased risk of surgical complications, particularly infections. Now surgeons at University of Illinois Chicago Heath who have pioneered the use of robotic-assisted surgery has shown that robotic-assisted kidney transplant and bariatric surgery can be performed safely to successfully reduce surgical complications.