Weight loss operation could lead to nerve damage:
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[Health India]: London, Oct 17 : According to a team of researchers from Mayo Clinic in Minnesota a large number of patients who have stomach surgery to lose weight develop peripheral nerve damage and complained of pain, tingling or numbness.
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Too much abdominal fat in middle age may increase the risk of disability in later years, according to new study findings presented Wednesday at the annual meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity in Las Vegas.
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CHICAGO - Obesity surgery helps patients do more than shed weight - it often cures their diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, researchers say.    The research - an analysis of 136 studies - found that such operations are more than cosmetic...
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Sioux Falls, SD - A man who weighed about half a ton when he was admitted to a hospital was recovering Wednesday from obesity surgery.
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WASHINGTON--Bariatric surgery for morbid obesity is associated with neurological complications according to a systematic study of peripheral neuropathy after bariatric surgery.
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(HealthDay News) -- Obesity surgery helps severely obese people lose weight by  reducing the size of the stomach, by bypassing a portion of the body's digestive system, or a combination of these procedures.
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Some obese people who have  weight-loss surgery, particularly younger women, develop a  neurological condition most often seen in severe alcoholics and  linked to a vitamin deficiency, researchers said on Monday.
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Extremely obese people suffering from depression or anxiety tend to lose less weight after obesity surgery than mentally healthy people, researchers reported Thursday in a study that suggests such patients could benefit from treatment beforehand.
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NEW YORK  - People with diabetes are prone  to develop nerve damage that causes numbness, tingling or pain  -- which may reduce awareness of skin damage and lead to  serious infections and ulcers. Now, a new drug may improve this  situation, Japanese researchers report.
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Dr. Robert Ersek, a 66-year-old plastic surgeon, invited reporters to his Texas operating room recently and, in front of their cameras, proceeded to liposuction himself. After numbing the skin near his navel, he slipped in a hollow tube about a quarter-inch wide and moved it back and forth until it had sucked out about half a pound of fat. Ersek's office throws away tons of liposuctioned fat every year. But he shipped his own to a California company for processing and long-term storage of some of the cells from that fat.
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New research has revealed that there may be a link between obesity and the loss of brain tissue. According to researchers from the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, in Sweden, carrying extra weight and conditions
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NEW YORK  - Obese patients typically show  poor sensitivity to the hormone insulin, a problem that can  lead to diabetes. Previous reports have shown that weight loss  surgery can improve this sensitivity and now, new research  indicates that the type of surgery determines how fast this  problem is fixed.
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NEW YORK  - Undergoing cosmetic surgery   performed by someone who's improperly trained can result in   scarring, burning and, in some cases, even death, a group of   dermatologic surgeons warns.
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Gastric-bypass surgery can leave people with pounds of sagging skin. For some, plastic surgery is a solution. See before-and-after photos of success stories.
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NEW YORK  - Anorexia nervosa causes a loss  of lung tissue, resulting in changes that resemble emphysema,  according to a new report.
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Weight loss surgery can be especially  helpful to patients with diabetes and can even help them  reverse the disease, Australian researchers reported on  Tuesday.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) --The morbidly obese may not be the only people who should be eligible for bariatric surgery to lose weight, U.S. researchers report.