Study: Obesity surgery can save lives
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Following for release at 4 pm, Eastern time CHICAGO  _ Obesity surgery can do the body good -- in more ways than one. Researchers say it not only helps patients drop pounds, but it often cures their diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
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Breast cancer is more likely to kill obese women than those of normal weight, research suggests. US researchers from the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia examined data on more than 2,000 patients with early stage breast cancer.
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Although obesity is usually linked to detrimental health consequences, new research indicates that overweight people with heart failure have a lower mortality risk than those of normal weight.
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NEW YORK  - 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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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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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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Obesity is considered a major public-health problem, but many scientists are coming to see it as a comparative blessing, given the alternative.
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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  - Even in the absence of apparent heart disease, obesity appears to prevent the heart from functioning normally, according to a new report.
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Obese people who undergo weight loss surgery such as gastric bypass not only shed pounds, they can be cured of diabetes, high blood pressure, and a number of other illnesses commonly caused by obesity.
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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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NEW YORK  - In-hospital outcomes of weight-loss surgery, also known as "bariatric" surgery, vary widely from one institution to another, and it appears that hospitals that perform the most procedures have the lowest complication rates, according to the First Annual HealthGrades Bariatric Surgery Trends in American Hospitals Study.
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Oct. 6, 2004 (Atlanta) -- There&#39;s more evidence that obesity can be deadly. A new study shows obese women with early stage breast cancer are at greater risk of dying of their disease.
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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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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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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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According to a Swedish study, gastric bypass surgery is a better way to fight severe obesity than dieting. The scientists found that obese people who had gastric bypass surgery kept more weight off compared