Bariatric Surgery News

• DDW 2022 ESG's Cardiometabolic Benefits Last 5 Years Bariatric surgery's benefits have been well described, but endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty is relatively new, so its outcomes haven't been as well described.
  Medscape Medical News, May 27, 2022
• Experts Endorse Plant-Based Diet for Type 2 Diabetes Remission As a primary intervention, diet can achieve type 2 diabetes remission in many adults with normal or elevated BMI, and should be a plant-based, high-fiber diet, says a new consensus statement.
  Medscape Medical News, May 25, 2022
• Obesity Surgery Technique Uses Magnets in the Duodenum Duodeno-ileal bipartition, which uses two magnets, has the theoretical advantage of decreasing the risk of biliary reflux and avoiding dumping syndrome, ulcers, or gastrojejunal anastomotic stenosis.
  Medscape Medical News, May 24, 2022
• Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet Improves Immune Function In patients with obesity, a very-low-calorie ketogenic diet induces significant weight loss and has positive immunomodulatory properties, according to accumulating evidence.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• ECO 2022 When Is the Ideal Time to Try for a Baby After Bariatric Surgery? European researchers assessed the weight of babies born to mothers after bariatric surgery and suggest an optimal time to conceive post-surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Higher Magnesium Links With Better Bariatric Surgery Outcomes A review of 403 patients with type 2 diabetes who underwent bariatric surgery showed that higher magnesium levels were associated with better post-surgical glycemic control and diabetes remission.
  First Look, May 09, 2022
• ACP-IM 2022 New Research Holds Promise for Fighting Obesity, Says Expert A growing understanding of adipose tissue as an endocrine organ responsible for weight control opens avenues for treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, May 03, 2022
• Endoscopic Obesity Treatments Offer Alternative to Surgery While these methods have shown lower efficacy, they are associated with fewer adverse effects.
  Medscape Medical News, April 27, 2022
• Bariatric Surgery Cuts Cardiovascular Events, Even in Seniors In individuals with obesity, even those aged 65-75 years of age, bariatric surgery can reduce long-term cardiovascular events, such as heart failure, stroke, and myocardial infarction.
  Medscape Medical News, April 14, 2022
• Why Do Teens With Severe Obesity Miss Out on Weight Loss Surgery? Teens with severe obesity face social stigma and other barriers when it comes to undergoing metabolic and bariatric surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2022
• Lap Band Failures Drive Many to Safer Weight Loss Surgeries More lap band patients are choosing to have conversion surgery to gastric sleeve or gastric bypass. At the same time, fewer doctors are doing lap band procedures.
  WebMD Health News, March 30, 2022
• What to Say to Patients Who Ask: 'Does Black Tea Cure Diabetes?' Many natural substances are touted as a miracle cure for diabetes, and weight loss. Endocrinologists separate fact from fiction and offer advice on discussing this issue with patients.
  Medscape Medical News, March 17, 2022
• Gastric Bypass Best Option for Severe Obesity With Diabetes? Roux-en-Y gastric bypass led to 'improved health outcomes without costing a significant amount of money' in patients with severe obesity and type 2 diabetes of any severity, says a study author.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2022
• No COVID Vax, No Transplant: Unfair or Good Medicine? COVID vaccinations — and some people's resistance to them — have turned what used to be routine preparation controversial.
  WebMD Health News, February 04, 2022
• Phentermine-Topiramate May Be Best Medication for Weight Loss Of all the available medications for treatment of overweight and obesity, phentermine-topiramate may be the most effective for weight loss, a systematic review and network meta-analysis suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, January 06, 2022
• Sleeve Gastrectomy, RYGB Reduce Liver Fat in Type 2 Diabetes Retrospective studies have suggested that Roux-en-Y gastric bypass may be more effective in countering hepatic steatosis, but randomized trials have been lacking.
  Medscape Medical News, January 04, 2022
• Proof That Substantial Weight Loss Lessens COVID-19 Severity People with obesity and substantial weight loss following metabolic surgery had significantly milder cases of COVID-19 compared with matched people who had no surgery and had not lost weight.
  Medscape Medical News, December 29, 2021
• Fetal Gut May Have Insulin-Producing Cells That Shut Off at Birth Although this is very preliminary research, "the dream is to have a drug that could re-awaken the fetal insulin-expressing program" that is absent in adults, said the senior researcher.
  Medscape Medical News, December 27, 2021
• Bead Embolization: a 'Bridge' to Bariatric Surgery? 'There is a real need to expand the weight loss treatments currently on offer for patients, especially those who don't want to go down a surgical route,' says a study author.
  Medscape Medical News, December 21, 2021
• CDC Traces Outbreak of P Aeruginosa to US Travelers to Mexico A large and prolonged outbreak of infections with extremely drug-resistant bacteria has been traced to people from the US who traveled to Mexico to have weight-loss surgery, a new study finds.
  Reuters Health Information, December 20, 2021