Obesity Surgery Could Stop Diabetes
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CHICAGO - Patients who undergo obesity surgery get far more than cosmetic benefits - many also shed fat-related ailments including diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, researchers say.    Their report - an analysis of 136 studies - suggests that in some cases, the drastic operations may alter the patient's body chemistry itself and relieve conditions that can lead to heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure...
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Gastric bypass surgery and similar operations for severe obesity lead to long-term weight loss, and people who have undergone such a procedure have lower risks for heart disease and diabetes than conventionally treated individuals, according to a new Swedish study.
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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 treatment beforehand.
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Weight-loss surgery for severe obesity may carry the risk of damage to the network of nerves that runs throughout the body, researchers reported Thursday.
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Sticking to a low-calorie, low-sugar diet could help diabetes patients who have been given rare transplants of pancreatic cells, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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The use of surgery to treat obesity  has increased greatly among U.S. adolescents in recent years,  with the number of operations tripling from 2000 to 2003,  according to a study published on Monday.
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NICE recommends a raft of measures, including surgery, to tackle the growing obesity epidemic.
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NEW YORK  - Insulin, Glucotrol, and drugs like Avandia and Actos are all effective treatments for diabetes, but they can produce weight gain.
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Weight-loss surgery works much better than standard medical therapy as a treatment for type 2 diabetes in obese people, a study to compare the approaches has found.
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NEW YORK  - An international study confirms   that transplantation of insulin-producing pancreas cells,   called islets, can help stabilize blood sugar levels in people   who have hard-to-control type 1 diabetes.
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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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An old ulcer operation is getting new attention as a possible alternative obesity surgery: a quick snip of a nerve that helps control hunger.
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MONDAY, June 18 (HealthDay News) -- Bariatric surgery to treat morbid obesity is safe for carefully selected, older people and Medicare patients, according to a U.S. study in the June issue of the journal Archives of Surgery.
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Obesity surgery has helped many patients lose weight and improve their health, a panel of experts told US regulators Thursday, but they added there was not enough data on how well it has worked for elderly patients covered
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A new, large study suggests that treating women who develop diabetes during pregnancy greatly reduces the chances that their baby will become obese during childhood.
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For obese patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) that persists after standard surgery, relief may come from a type of "keyhole" operation that reduces the size of the stomach -- laparoscopic gastric bypass -- new research shows.
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A study finds that weight-loss surgery works much better than standard medical therapy as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes in the obese.