The most common type of obesity surgery may increase patients’ chances for alcohol abuse, according to the largest study to demonstrate a potential link. Patients who had gastric bypass surgery faced ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Gastric bypass surgery appears to lead to better long-term results including greater weight loss, resolution of ...

Gastric bypass patients had a lower rate of major adverse cardiac events than sleeve gastrectomy patients over 5 years. This was driven by a 40% risk reduction for myocardial infarction among gastric ...

At 54 years old, Lewis suffered from high cholesterol, sleep apnea, depression, severe arthritis and diabetes. He had also undergone two knee surgeries and a scare with some fatty tissue that he ...

Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass showed lower rates of complications, length of hospital stay, charges and mortality compared with open Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in the treatment of morbidly obese ...

Gastric surgery may not only help people combat obesity: Evidence shows it can also help reduce diabetes risk factors. A new University of Minnesota study published in JAMA on June 5 reveals that mild ...

The health benefits of Roux-en Y gastric bypass surgery—a surgical weight-loss procedure in which the stomach is made smaller—start soon after the procedure. New research presented today at the ...

Woman finally conquers her weight thanks to scar-free procedure. June 3, 2009 — -- Since puberty, 34-year-old Liliana Gomez-Guerrero had battled her weight. She literally has lost hundreds of ...

Less than a week after the Food and Drug Administration approved the marketing of Lap-Band weight-loss surgery to 11 million new patients, a pair of studies has found that a different, older procedure ...

Which of the two most common bariatric surgeries - gastric sleeve or gastric bypass - has the highest subsequent risk of additional operations or procedures? According to a study published in the ...