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News: February 14, 2012
Weight Loss Surgery Can Help Whole Families: Study
TUESDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- When one member of a family has bariatric surgery to lose weight, other family members may be more likely to shed a few pounds, a new study finds. Researchers tracked the spouses, children and other family memb...
Many Unaware of Plastic Surgery Options After Weight Loss Procedures
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Most of the 220,000 people who undergo weight loss surgery every year are not aware of the follow-up procedures they could have to remove any loose skin they may have, according to a new study by plastic sur...
Rigorous Exercise May Boost Benefits of Weight-Loss Surgery
FRIDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- After undergoing the weight-loss procedure known as bariatric surgery, following a rigorous exercise routine can help patients continue to lose weight and avoid regaining unwanted pounds, researchers say. "We di...
Weight-Loss Surgery Helps Less Obese Patients: Study
THURSDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) -- Obese patients whose body-mass index (BMI) falls below the minimum level recommended for weight-loss surgery may have better outcomes than those who are more obese, new research suggests. An analysis of data f...
For Many, Weight-Loss Surgery Also Eases Migraines
WEDNESDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Severely obese patients who suffer from migraines may see them fade or become less frequent after having weight-reducing gastric bypass surgery, University of Iowa researchers say. In the three years followin...
Rushed Discharge After Weight-Loss Surgery May Raise Risks
WEDNESDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Weight loss surgery patients who are discharged from the hospital too soon after undergoing gastric bypass have an increased risk of complications and death, a new study has found. After analyzing data from n...
Can Weight-Loss Surgery Reverse Common Cause of Infertility?
WEDNESDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Weight-loss surgery may reverse a common cause of infertility in women, a small, new study suggests. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a hormonal imbalance that affects up to 10 percent of women of child-...
Weight-Loss Surgery Can Be Effective Despite Depression
WEDNESDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Being depressed doesn't reduce the effectiveness of weight loss surgery, a new study finds. University of Michigan researchers analyzed data from more than 25,469 patients who had weight loss surgery and foun...
Weight-Loss Surgery May Not Lower Death Risk: Study
SUNDAY, June 12 (HealthDay News) -- Weight-loss surgery doesn't decrease the risk of death among severely obese middle-aged adults, a new study says. U.S. researchers looked at 850 male patients at Veterans Affairs medical centers who had weight-l...
Weight-Loss Surgery Linked to Rise in Fracture Risk
SATURDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) -- The risk of fractures after weight-loss surgery may be even higher than previously thought, a new study suggests. Prior research has shown that people who undergo surgery to lose weight, such as gastric bypass,...
Weight-Loss Surgery May Lower Risk of Alzheimer's in Diabetics
SUNDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- While the finding isn't conclusive, a new study suggests that weight-loss surgery in obese diabetics could lower their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Researchers found that gastric bypass patients, when ...
Weight-Loss Surgery Seems No Riskier for Seniors
MONDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) -- Seniors can undergo weight-loss surgery without any worse side effects than younger people experience, new research shows. "Age did not seem to be a significant predictor for mortality or major adverse events, but...
Teens' Weight Loss Surgery May Weaken Bones
MONDAY, March 28 (HealthDay News) -- Teens who undergo gastric bypass weight loss surgery can expect to have a decline in bone mass, just as adults do, according to a new study. Two years after the surgery, the bone mineral content of the 61 obese...
Weight Loss Surgery May Cut Knee Osteoarthritis Pain
SATURDAY, Feb. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Losing weight can help reduce the amount of pain experienced by obese people with knee osteoarthritis, researchers say. The new study included 24 obese adults, aged 30 to 67, with knee osteoarthritis who under...
Weight-Loss Surgery May 'Remodel' Heart
THURSDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Besides enabling severely obese people to lose weight, gastric bypass surgery seems to help their overly stressed hearts return to more normal function and appearance, a new study suggests. Obesity is a risk fa...
Gastric Band Surgery Rising Among Obese Teens
MONDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- More overweight teenagers are undergoing laparoscopic gastric band surgery, a weight-loss procedure that isn't approved for anyone under 18 years old, a new study finds. Looking at a database of bariatric surge...
Study Finds Bariatric Surgery Lowers Gestational Diabetes Risk
THURSDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Obese women who have weight loss surgery before they get pregnant are three times less likely to develop gestational diabetes and are also less likely to require a cesarean section, a new study finds. Weight l...
Stomach Reduction Surgery Via Mouth a U.S. First
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors who performed a stomach reduction through a patient's mouth say it's the first time this type of surgery has been done in the United States. During the weight-loss procedure -- called a sleeve gastrec...
Weight-Loss Surgery May Ease Childbirth Risks
TUESDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) -- Undergoing weight-loss surgery before having a baby greatly lowers the risk that obese women will develop major health problems during pregnancy, a new study reports. Obese women, particularly those who are ex...
Super Obesity Ups Risk of Dying After Weight-Loss Surgery
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 21 (HealthDay News) -- People who are super obese and those with the most chronic health problems face an increased risk for dying within a year after weight-loss surgery, a new U.S. study has found. The research involved 856 men a...
Delaying Weight-Loss Surgery May Leave Teens at Risk
FRIDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- The time frame in which gastric bypass surgery can be used to reverse morbid obesity in teens could be much shorter than previously believed, U.S. researchers say. Their study included 61 teens who had laparoscop...
Weight-Loss Surgery Breaks Families' 'Obesity Cycle'
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Obese mothers have children who are likely to be obese, but a new study concludes that weight-loss surgery can break the cycle. Researchers found that women who had weight-loss surgery before becoming pregnan...
How Weight Loss Helps the Heart
TUESDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Losing a lot of weight rejuvenates the physical structure of the heart, and it makes no difference whether the weight is lost by surgery or by dieting, a new British study shows. The heart muscles of people who...
Study Finds Weight-Loss Surgery Safer Than Thought
WEDNESDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- For those considering bariatric surgery to combat significant obesity, a new study suggests the risk of complications may be much lower than what has previously been reported. The study, which looked at both ...
Obese Poor Shut Out From Weight-Loss Surgeries
THURSDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- Despite having one of the highest rates of obesity in America, the poor are less likely to undergo weight loss surgery than obese people who are better off financially, new research shows. White women with hig...
Bariatric Surgery Cuts Cancer Risk for Women
TUESDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) -- Obese women who have weight-loss surgery may reduce their risk of developing cancer, but there appears to be no such benefit for men, Swedish researchers report. Obesity is associated with an increased risk of ...
Weight-Loss Surgery Safe, Effective Type 2 Diabetes Treatment
WEDNESDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) -- Not only does one of the largest studies on bariatric surgery find the procedure to be as safe as other routine surgeries, two other studies confirm that it also appears to stave off diabetes for the long ter...
Common Weight-Loss Surgery May Double Risk of Kidney Stones
MONDAY, June 22 (HealthDay News) -- A popular weight-loss surgery may double the risk of kidney stones, though the actual odds are still relatively slight, a new study suggests. Having Roux-en-Y, the most common type of gastric bypass surgery, may...
Might Weight-Loss Surgery Lead to Fractures?
THURSDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) -- Having bariatric surgery to induce weight loss might put a person at greater risk for broken bones, a new study says. About one in five cases reviewed by Mayo Clinic researchers revealed that the person fractu...
Weight-Loss Surgery Simplified
TUESDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- A new weight-loss procedure that involves sewing together the sides of the stomach holds promise as an alternative to traditional gastric bypass surgery, suggest preliminary findings from a clinical trial. The i...
Weight-Loss Surgery Options Compared in Super-Obese
TUESDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- A technique called duodenal switch surgery may be more effective than gastric bypass surgery for patients with obesity-related medical problems such as high cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure, accordi...
Bariatric Surgery Centers Don't Deliver Better Outcomes
TUESDAY, April 21 (HealthDay News) -- Having bariatric surgery at hospitals designated as centers of excellence doesn't reduce a patient's risk of complications or death, a U.S. study finds. Bariatric surgery restricts the amount of food a person ...
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