Obesity Surgery Shows Benefits Years Later
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A long-term study of people who had surgery for obesity found they lost more weight and experienced fewer obesity-related complications, including diabetes, than people who didn&#39;t have the operation.
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NEW YORK  - Patients can develop potentially disabling neurological complications after gastric bypass surgery performed to treat morbid obesity, most likely due to deficiencies in certain nutrients, a new study shows.
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Extremely obese people who have weight-loss surgeries experience dramatic improvements in their health, according to a study in Wednesday&#39;s Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Participants in the Minnesota Heart Survey have been eating better over the past two decades, say researchers at the University of Minnesota.
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A 42-year-old man who once weighed more than 1,000 pounds was recovering Wednesday at a Sioux Falls, SD, hospital after gastric bypass surgery.
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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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People 65 years of age or older  may think twice about having weight loss surgery, according to  a surgeon who performs this operation and has studied the  outcome.
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An experimental anti-obesity drug was shown to help people lose weight in the first year, and keep it off in the second, researchers said Tuesday.
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Stockholm - Gastric surgery is a more effective way to fight severe obesity than dieting, according to a Swedish study cited in the media here on Thursday.
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In the current decade, there  has been a dramatic increase in the number of obese adolescents  having surgery to help them lose weight, although weight loss  surgery remains an uncommonly performed procedure in young  people.
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Obese people are significantly less likely to die prematurely if they undergo stomach surgery to lose weight, according to two large new studies that offer the first convincing evidence that the health gains of losing weight translate into living longer.
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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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New research shows that bariatric surgeries, like gastric bypass, are safer and more effective than originally thought, especially for teenagers and seniors. But patients have to be sure to watch their alcohol intake
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A new study found that obesity is relatively rare in the foreign-born until they have lived in the United States - the land of drive-thrus, remote controls and double cheeseburgers - for more than 10 years.
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Most people who have obesity surgery not only lose a lot of weight but also experience marked improvements in health problems that are part and parcel of being extremely overweight.
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A new study gives the strongest evidence yet that obesity surgery can cure diabetes. Patients who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs were five times more likely to see their diabetes disappear over the next two years than were patients who had standard diabetes care, according to Australian researchers.