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National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions releases employer recommendations to address obesity coverage

For over 30 years, the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions (National Alliance) has united business healthcare coalitions...

Surgery more effective than medical and lifestyle interventions for diabetes control and remission

Bariatric surgery is more effective than medical and lifestyle modifications for achieving long-term type 2 diabetes control and...

Viking’s VK2735 demonstrates up to 14.7% mean body weight loss after 13 weeks

Patients receiving weekly doses of Viking Therapeutics’ VK2735, a dual agonist of the glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) and...

Phase 2 trial shows 83% of adults treated with survodutide achieve significant improvement in MASH

Up to 83.0% of adults treated with survodutide (Boehringer Ingelheim and Zealand Pharma) achieved a statistically significant improvement...

NICE approves endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty for weight loss management

The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has approved the use of endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) for weight...

Intraoperative leak tests correlated with increase in staple line leakage but a lower rate of postoperative bleeding

Intraoperative leak test (IOLT) is correlated with an increase in staple line leakage (SLL) when included as a part of a sleeve...

First procedures utilising ReShape’s next-generation Lap-Band 2.0 FLEX

ReShape Lifesciences has announced that the first procedures utilising the company’s next generation, enhanced Lap-Band 2.0 FLEX, have...

Journal Watch 22/2/2024

Welcome to our weekly round-up of the latest bariatric and obesity-related papers published in the medical literature. As ever, we have...

Interdisciplinary therapy programme reduces inflammation and cardiometabolic risk in adolescents with obesity

After a one-year interdisciplinary therapy programme that included clinical, nutritional, psychological and exercise counselling, a group...

Tranexamic acid results in better LSG outcomes compared to placebo

Tranexamic acid (TXA) demonstrates a robust safety and efficacy profile for its use in patients undergoing laparoscopic sleeve...

Preoperative antihypertensive drugs and visceral fat area can predict hypertension remission and recurrence post-LSG

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Muscle-preserving weight loss drug ASC47 plus semaglutide is superior to semaglutide monotherapy for weight loss

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Racial and ethnic groups face barriers to obtaining OMMs

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