News tagged with gastric bypass
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Gene variant appears to predict weight loss after gastric bypass
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have identified a gene variant that helps predict how much weight an individual will lose after gastric bypass surgery, a finding with the potential both to ...
Genetics
May 02, 2013 |
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Gastric bypass findings could lead to diabetes treatment
A Lund University research team has shed new light on why gastric bypass often sends diabetes into remission rapidly, opening the door to developing treatment with the same effect.
Diabetes
May 01, 2013 |
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Gastric bypass surgery alters hormones to relieve diabetes symptoms
–Gastric bypass surgery alters the hormones and amino acids produced during digestion, hinting at the mechanisms through which the surgery eliminates symptoms of type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study accepted for ...
Diabetes
Apr 30, 2013 |
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Study finds possible alternative to bariatric weight loss surgery
An experimental procedure successfully tested in obese laboratory rats may provide a less-invasive alternative to bariatric weight-loss surgery, researchers report online in Endocrinology.
Surgery
Apr 30, 2013 |
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A new way to lose weight? Study shows that changes to gut microbiota may play role in weight loss
Scientists at Harvard may have new hope for anyone who's tried to fight the battle of the bulge. New research, conducted in collaboration with researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, has found that the gut microbes ...
Medications
Mar 27, 2013 |
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Study shows bariatric surgery restores pancreatic function by targeting belly fat
In a substudy of the STAMPEDE trial (Surgical Therapy And Medications Potentially Eradicate Diabetes Efficiently), Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that gastric bypass surgery reverses diabetes by uniquely restoring ...
Surgery
Feb 26, 2013 |
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Weight-loss surgery is new diabetes foe
(HealthDay)— Though it began as a treatment for something else entirely, gastric bypass surgery—which involves shrinking the stomach as a way to lose weight—has proven to be the latest and possibly ...
Diabetes
Jan 04, 2013 |
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Gastric bypass surgery helps diabetes but doesn't cure it
After gastric bypass surgery, diabetes goes away for some people—often even before they lose much weight. So does that mean gastric surgery "cures" diabetes? Not necessarily, according to the largest community-based study ...
Overweight and Obesity
Nov 26, 2012 |
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Bariatric surgical procedures have similar therapeutic benefits in obese adults
Obesity is associated with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, both of which can be significantly improved by weight loss. Gastric bypass and adjustable gastric banding are two bariatric surgery techniques that are frequently ...
Surgery
Nov 26, 2012 |
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Gastric bypass surgery: Follow up as directed to lose more
(Medical Xpress)—Gastric bypass patients who attended five follow-up office visits in two years as recommended by their surgeons lost nearly twice as much weight (113 lbs. vs. 57 lbs.) as patients who attended only two ...
Overweight and Obesity
Nov 20, 2012 |
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Gastric bypass surgery just as effective in teenagers as in adults
Teenagers with severe obesity can benefit from gastric bypass surgery just as much as adults. A study by Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden found that 81 teenagers lost ...
Overweight and Obesity
Oct 22, 2012 |
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Selenium deficiency may cause cardiomyopathy post-gastric bypass
Non-compliance with vitamin and mineral supplementation protocols after bariatric surgery could lead to nutritional deficiencies and related health complications, such as heart damage, according to two separate case reports ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 22, 2012 |
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Weight loss surgery may be associated with increased substance use following surgery
Patients who undergo bariatric weight loss surgery may be at increased risk for substance use (drug use, alcohol use and cigarette smoking) following surgery, particularly among patients who undergo laparoscopic Roux-en-Y ...
Surgery
Oct 15, 2012 |
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Pre-op factors predict post-gastric op glycemic response
(HealthDay)—The glycemic response to gastric bypass surgery can be predicted in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes by three preoperative factors, according to a study published online Oct. 1 in Diabetes Ca ...
Diabetes
Oct 08, 2012 |
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Over long-term, gastric bypass surgery associated with higher rate of diabetes remission
Severely obese patients who had Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery had significant weight loss that was sustained for an average of 6 years after the surgery and also experienced frequent remission and lower incidence of diabetes, ...
Diabetes
Sep 18, 2012 |
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