Bariatric Surgery For More Than Just Weight Loss? Gone may be the days of limiting bariatric surgery just to helping patients lose weight. Indeed, these weight loss surgeries, in all forms, do just as the name describes. But a slew of new research suggests bariatric surgery can also be used to help reverse medical complications of obesity, not just eliminate
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Bariatric Surgery Better Option for Glucose Control
Recently researchers at Duke University Medical Center and St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University, have discovered a new clue for why it is that bariatric surgery is more effective than managing diet alone at controlling glucose levels. Greatly increasing the health of many diabetic patients, who often need bariatric surgery to control their weight. Doctors have noticed that
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Gastric Bypass May Reduce Likelihood of Cancer for Women
Weight loss surgery (also known as bariatric surgery can sometimes reverse type-2 diabetes and reduce other obesity related health problems. New research suggests that obese women who undergo bariatric surgery experience 42% less likely of a risk of cancer. Why this occurs and if it is also true for obese men is not yet known. Obesity can greatly increase the
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