Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Thirty-day readmission rates and incidence of adverse events were low and similar between sleeve gastrectomy and ...

May 14 (UPI) --Losing even a little weight before bariatric surgery can reduce the risk of complications from the procedure, a study published Thursday by JAMA Network Open found. Compared to those ...

New guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA), in collaboration with several other groups, are now available for the perioperative evaluation and ...

In a retrospective study, semaglutide use leading up to bariatric surgery was not linked with greater weight loss a year after surgery. Rates of diabetes remission and complications were also ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Patients who use GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) both before and after undergoing bariatric surgery experience greater weight loss than with surgery alone, new data suggested. The ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio Two-thirds of patients who underwent Roux ...

The patients featured in a new research article underwent Rous-en-Y gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy—two of the most common kinds of bariatric surgery. Compared to the general U.S. population, ...

An expert panel of healthcare professionals and people with obesity in Europe recently endorsed recommendations for the safe practice of bariatric and metabolic surgery medical tourism (BMT). The ...