Weight Regain – Gastric Bypass vs Duodenal Switch
Weight regain was significantly higher after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass than biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch in super obese patients, according to conclusions of a study published online March 5, 2012 in the medical journal Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. The researchers set up this study to compare the weight loss after two different primary [...]
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The duodenal switch weight loss procedure produced greater weight loss results in severely obese patients compared to gastric bypass surgery, according to a study recently published online in Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. A severely obese person is someone whose body mass index (BMI) is 40 or more. This is about 100 pounds overweight [...]
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