Bariatric Surgery News

• Black Patients Have Worse Perioperative Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery Perioperative outcomes after bariatric surgery are significantly worse for black than for white patients, according to a new database study.
  Reuters Health Information, January 2019
• Need for Bariatric Revision Varies by Primary Operation Bariatric reoperations are more common after banding and vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG) than after gastric bypass (GBP), according to long-term follow-up of participants in the Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study.
  Reuters Health Information, January 2019
• MRI Monitors Liver Fat Response to Bariatric Surgery Hepatic steatosis improved rapidly with bariatric surgery; improvements were highest in those with marked steatosis presurgery and unrelated to starting weight or amount of weight lost, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2018
• AAAP 2018Alcohol Abuse After Bariatric Surgery Common, Concerning Bariatric surgery, particularly Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, significantly increases the risk of developing alcohol use disorder.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2018
• Better Score to Predict Diabetes Remission After Bariatric Surgery A revised version of the DiaRem scoring system helps predict longer-term remission with a range of different bariatric surgical procedures.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2018
• Cost and Weight Loss Drive Patient Choices in Bariatric Surgery Patient preference for a bariatric procedure is largely driven by cost and how much weight they are expected to lose as a result of surgery, shows the largest survey of its kind to date.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2018
• Alcohol Consumption Cutoffs Do Not Identify Gastric Bypass Patients With Alcohol Problems
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• OBESITY WEEK 2018Obesity Treatment Coverage Rising in US, but Still a Patchwork Coverage for nutritional, pharmaceutical, and surgical obesity treatments has improved in US state Medicaid and employee benefit programs since 2009, but is still lacking in many ways.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• OBESITY WEEK 2018Bariatric Surgery Tied to Lower Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Severely obese patients who undergo bariatric surgery have a significantly reduced risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD), according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• OBESITY WEEK 2018One 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 2018
• OBESITY WEEK 2018Metabolic Surgery Tops Drugs for Reducing Diabetes-Related Complications For obese patients with type 2 diabetes, metabolic surgery (sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-Y gastric bypass) prolongs life and reduces cardiovascular events compared to best medical therapy, according to a meta-analytic review.
  Reuters Health Information, November 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 2018
• Upper GI X-rays Unhelpful After Sleeve Gastrectomy Gastrografin upper gastrointestinal inspection is generally of little value in determining the integrity of staple lines following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, according to a retrospective review.
  Reuters Health Information, November 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 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 2018
• EASD 2018Gastric 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 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 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 2018
• ACG 2018More 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 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 2018