Posts tagged bariatric surgery
Medical Groups Issue Updated Guidelines for Weight Loss Surgery
The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, The Obesity Society, and American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery have updated their guidelines for weight loss surgery based on the most current clinical evidence. The guidelines provide recommendations pertaining to the care of bariatric surgery patients before, during, and after surgery. The recommendations are developed to assist [...]
Read the full article →Cleveland Clinic Names Bariatric Surgery Top Medical Innovation
Bariatric surgery for diabetes control was selected as the top medical innovation for 2013 by physicians and scientists at the Cleveland Clinic. The announcement was made today during the Cleveland Clinic’s 2012 Medical Innovation Summit. The highly anticipated Top 10 list is released annually naming the devices and therapies that will have a major impact [...]
Read the full article →What Studies Show About Robotic Bariatric Surgery
The safety and efficacy of robotic bariatric surgery was the subject of a study recently published online in Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. Robotic-assisted technology has emerged as one of the most recent advances within the field of bariatric surgery. While there is agreement as to the technical advantages that robotic bariatric surgery offers [...]
Read the full article →Bariatric Surgery vs Medical Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes
Instead of reaching for their medications, obese diabetics may be better off heading to the surgeon’s office, according to the results of several new studies comparing medical therapy and bariatric surgery in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes, a condition often associated with obesity, is a disease that affects the body’s ability [...]
Read the full article →Bariatric Surgery Trends in California Hospitals
The increasing popularity of weight loss surgery prompted the State of California to examine hospitalization data for bariatric procedures, focusing on patient characteristics, cost, outcomes, and the hospitals where the surgeries were performed. Among the key findings of the report is the fairly recent and rapid shift away from open Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, the rapid [...]
Read the full article →CMS Considers Coverage of Gastric Sleeve
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said they will consider a proposal to cover laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy as a treatment for obesity for Medicare beneficiaries. The agency is requesting public comments to determine “whether there is adequate evidence, including clinical trials, for evaluating health outcomes of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for the indications listed [...]
Read the full article →Hospital to Start Performing Bariatric Surgery on Children
Obesity is such a serious problem in Qatar, that the Hamad Medical Corporation has started performing bariatric surgery on children. The youngest patients so far have been teenagers aged 14 to 18, but over the next few months they plan to operate on children as young as eight years old. The overwhelming demand for bariatric [...]
Read the full article →Bariatric Surgery Significantly Reduces Cardiovascular Risk
Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic found that obese patients had a 40% improvement in 10-year cardiovascular risk following bariatric surgery, based on a meta-analysis recently reported online in the American Journal of Cardiology. The patients showed an average excess weight loss of more than 50%, which was associated with significant improvement in cardiovascular risk factors, [...]
Read the full article →Diet and Exercise Programs Useless for Obese
An opinion article recently published in The Medical Journal of Australia calls for the greater use of bariatric surgery, citing the high failure rate of diet and exercise programs in helping obese people maintain long-term weight loss. Newly discovered biology about the body shows “that once someone becomes overweight, that state is physiologically defended” by [...]
Read the full article →Top Six Risk Factors for Bariatric Surgery
A new study from the University of California at Irvine evaluated data from more than 100,000 bariatric surgery patients and identified the top six risk factors for bariatric surgery. While researchers agree that bariatric surgery is safer than ever, they also realize that individual risk varies. The study showed that a patient with one or [...]
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