Bariatric Surgery Resource Center News

• OBESITY WEEK 2018 One Size Doesn't Fit All: Surgery Benefits Vary by Obese Subtype Those with disordered eating may respond best to bariatric surgery, whereas those with extreme obesity of early onset may have less weight loss.
  Medscape Medical News, November 16, 2018
• OBESITY WEEK 2018 Bariatric Surgery Reduces Later Heart Failure Deaths Hospitalized heart failure patients with prior bariatric surgery had lower mortality than those without prior surgery, even after matching for BMI.
  Medscape Medical News, November 14, 2018
• OBESITY WEEK 2018 Obesity Week: Getting to the Heart of the Matter For its first-ever theme, this year's joint meeting of The Obesity Society and American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery will focus on the ties between obesity and cardiovascular health.
  Medscape Medical News, November 08, 2018
• Teens Get Lasting Weight Loss With Two of Three Bariatric Procedures BMI reduction of 20% or more sustained over 5 years with gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy but not gastric banding.
  Medscape Medical News, October 23, 2018
• EASD 2018 Gastric Band, Metformin Equally Prevent Diabetes in Short-Term In moderately obese adults with prediabetes or recent-onset type 2 diabetes, both gastric banding and metformin improved insulin sensitivity within a year. But longer-term, gastric banding should triumph.
  Medscape Medical News, October 16, 2018
• Bariatric Surgery Cuts CAD in Very Obese, but Do Effects Wane? Bariatric surgery reduces macrovascular disease in obese patients with diabetes. Although, weight regain remains a challenge in all patients, if expectations are realistic, it's a good treatment option.
  Medscape Medical News, October 16, 2018
• Should Breast Surgery Be Its Own Medical Specialty? In the US, there are medical specialty boards for thoracic surgery, orthopedic surgery, head and neck surgery, colorectal surgery, and surgery for a variety of other organs/systems. But not the breast.
  Medscape Medical News, October 12, 2018
• ACG 2018 More Biliary Disease With Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery The move toward laparoscopic bariatric surgery and the decline in bariatric surgery with concomitant cholecystectomy has led to an increase in gallstone-related complications, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, October 11, 2018
• Weight Loss After Menopause, Lower Breast Cancer Risk Postmenopausal women who experience a weight loss of 5% or more are at lower risk for invasive breast cancer compared with women whose weight remains stable weight.
  Medscape Medical News, October 09, 2018
• Bariatric Surgery Halves Microvascular Risk in Type 2 Diabetes 'Such a remarkable decrease in microvascular complications has rarely been demonstrated by any form of diabetes therapy,' write the authors of an editorial accompanying the study.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2018
• Bariatric Surgery Only Partly Fixes Gut Flora in Severe Obesity Most severely obese patients had gut microbial flora that was not very diverse, and although bariatric surgery helped, it only partly "rescued" gut microbial richness in new research.
  Medscape Medical News, July 11, 2018
• Opioids After Surgery: What Is the Right Number of Pills? As the opioid epidemic rages, a Johns Hopkins surgeon and researcher is leading an effort to curb overprescribing by offering procedure-specific guidelines to ensure that post-surgical patients leave the hospital with enough, but not too much, pain medication.
  KFF Health News, June 27, 2018
• Alert Five More Deaths Linked to Intragastric Balloons for Obesity The FDA alerts providers that the 2-year death toll involving the Orbera Intragastric Balloon System and the ReShape Integrated Dual Balloon System is up to 12 worldwide.
  News Alerts, June 04, 2018
• DDW 2018 'Practice-Changing' Reflux Technique in the Spotlight at DDW About 40% of patients taking proton pump inhibitors for gastroesophageal reflux have persistent symptoms despite treatment. A new option will be discussed at the upcoming Digestive Disease Week (DDW).
  Medscape Medical News, May 28, 2018
• Efforts to Resurrect EndoBarrier for Use in Obese With Diabetes Meta-analysis findings are published as the device maker seeks FDA approval for a new US clinical trial amid efforts to obtain another CE Mark to reintroduce the device in Europe.
  Medscape Medical News, May 25, 2018
• ECO 2018 Big Drop in Malignant Melanoma Rate After Bariatric Surgery Weight loss surgery for obesity appears to result in a huge reduction in the risk of malignant melanoma that persists for up to 20 years, according to a new analysis of long-term data from the SOS study.
  Medscape Medical News, May 24, 2018
• AACE 2018 'Charting the Future' Theme Will Guide 2018 AACE Meeting New research and state-of-the art lectures will update endocrinologists on what's around the corner.
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2018
• What Approaches Do You Use to Treat Obesity? Medscape survey finds many physicians do not prescribe newer weight-loss drugs, and even fewer refer patients for bariatric surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, March 20, 2018
• Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes Better After Bariatric Surgery Unlike medical therapies, bariatric surgery put type 2 diabetes into remission and improved cardiovascular risk factors among teens, but complication rates were higher.
  Medscape Medical News, March 12, 2018
• Two Docs Accused in $250M Gastric Band Insurance Scam The alleged scheme included forcing patients to have unneeded assessments, falsifying tests to justify bariatric surgeries, and duping payers and patients. If convicted, they could face decades in prison.
  Medscape Medical News, March 06, 2018