How a disrupted body clock drives inflammatory diseases
New research from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has demonstrated the significant role that an irregular body clock...
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The surge in obesity in Brazil is the main focus on this year’s Brazilian Bariatric Surgery Congress
The surge on the numbers of obesity in Brazil - especially after the COVID-19 pandemic - and the new treatments to bring back quality of...
High volume bariatric centres may benefit patients with morbid obesity undergoing general surgery
Patients with morbid obesity undergoing general surgery may benefit from having general surgery at a high volume bariatric centres,...
Meta-analysis finds bariatric surgery has 0.08% mortality rate
Bariatric surgery has an overall 0.08% mortality rate with no statistically significant difference between overall, 30-day, 90-day or...
MERIT: Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty study meets primary endpoints
Study investigators of the Multi-Center Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty (ESG) Randomized Interventional Trial (MERIT) have announced that...
Bariatric surgery results in better HRQoL compared to non-surgical interventions
Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) and laparoscopic Roux-en- Y Gastric Bypass (LRYGB) may have better health-related quality of life...
Medicaid expansion increased access to bariatric surgery
Access to bariatric surgery increased by 31% annually for lower-income Medicaid-covered and uninsured white adults age 26 to 64 but not...
SG safer but less effective than RYGB
Sleeve gastrectomy is safer than gastric bypass for Medicare patients after five years, researchers led by University of Michigan Health...
Excess body weight significantly associated with COVID-19 mortality
There is a statistically significant positive association between COVID-19 mortality and the proportion of the overweight in adult...
Dispelling LAP-BAND Myths
At the recent XXIV IFSO World Congress in Madrid, Spain, Professors Jean-Marc Chevallier (Bariatric Surgeon at Hospital European Georges...
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