SAN FRANCISCO -- In order to maximize weight loss, a GLP-1 receptor agonist may be needed both before and after bariatric ...

Bariatric surgery is a medical procedure that alters the digestive system to help individuals with obesity lose weight by ...

He has lost 19.5st (124kg) and will take on the 17-hour ironman race in Leeds on 27 July, which involves a 2.4 mile (3.8 km) ...

Black adults who underwent a sleeve gastrectomy had a lower total weight loss and higher HbA1c after surgery than white and ...

Introduction: Intraoperative indocyanine green (ICG) is increasingly used in surgery. In metabolic and bariatric surgery, it allows visualization of the tissues and blood supply to anastomoses in real ...

Paramedic Alison Tarrant had struggled with binge-eating and her weight after having children and, in 2019 after reaching 16 stone, decided to undergo a gastric sleeve operation.

Patients with newly diagnosed gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer who received the PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab (Imfinzi; AstraZeneca) and chemotherapy both before and after surgery ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass leads to greater weight loss than sleeve gastrectomy in patients with obesity at 10 years, according to long-term follow-up from a Swiss randomized trial.

However, sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass did not significantly differ in terms of mean percentage total weight loss.

For patients with diabetes undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and sleeve gastrectomy (SG), overall expenditures decrease in the postsurgical period.

Mental Health and Well-Being Maintaining your mental health is as crucial as physical health, especially after a life-altering procedure like gastric sleeve surgery. It’s not uncommon for patients to ...