Sally G, a 38-year-old white woman from Atlanta, has type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). She stands 64 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds. Her body mass index (BMI) is 38.2 kg/m 2 and her glycated ...

Which of the two most common bariatric surgeries - gastric sleeve or gastric bypass - has the highest subsequent risk of additional operations or procedures? According to a study published in the ...

Gastric bypass patients had a lower rate of major adverse cardiac events than sleeve gastrectomy patients over 5 years. This was driven by a 40% risk reduction for myocardial infarction among gastric ...

(Reuters Health) - Three in four obese people with diabetes who had a common type of weight-loss operation called Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) experienced remission of their diabetes within a year ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A higher percentage of adults who underwent gastric bypass lost 50% or more excess weight at 3 years compared ...

Deborah Gregory, a former international runaway model who went on to create the mega-popular book series “The Cheetah Girls,” ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with morbid obesity who underwent either laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy or laparoscopic Roux-en-Y ...

This study, based on information contained in two Swedish databases, provides information on the preferred timing of cholecystectomy in morbidly obese patients undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.

It may be the special diet adopted by gastric bypass patients, not the surgery itself, that results in many of the biggest benefits associated with the weight loss procedure, according to a new study.

People who underwent gastric bypass had lower rates of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) than those who had sleeve gastrectomy, a cohort study found. Among nearly 40,000 bariatric surgery patients, ...