Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Metabolic surgery showed several long-term benefits, like a lower risk for death, over GLP-1s. Surgery should ...

Adults with obesity and type 2 diabetes who underwent bariatric surgery had greater decreases in HbA1c and body weight than ...

Obesity, a chronic disease characterized by an unhealthy amount of body fat, confers a high risk of several types of cancer, including colorectal, kidney, liver, and pancreatic malignancies. Lifestyle ...

Bariatric surgery is associated with long-term improvements in cognition and brain structure in addition to general health benefits and expected weight loss, a large study found. Among 133 adults with ...

For older adults with obesity, bariatric surgery does not appear to significantly reduce the risk for obesity-related cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD), as it does in younger adults. Bariatric ...

Bariatric surgery, also called weight loss surgery, leads to better blood sugar control and less medication use long-term in people with type 2 diabetes than non-surgical management with medications ...

A new study has shown that if you suffer from sleep apnea and obesity, the best way to cut your risk of heart attack, stroke or death is weight loss — specifically bariatric surgery. Perhaps that ...

ORELAND, Pa. (WPVI) -- Most talk about bariatric surgery focuses on the benefits for heart health, blood sugar, or cholesterol. But it also has big benefits for emotional health. Four years ago, Eddie ...

Three years ago, KSAT went to CHRISTUS Children’s Hospital to report on its brand-new children’s bariatric surgery program.

There is a consensus emerging that surgery is most appropriate for people with severe obesity for whom lifestyle ...

Nov. 19 -- TUESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Women who get pregnant after having weight-loss surgery have a lower risk of maternal and newborn complications than pregnant women who are obese, ...