ALLMedicine™ Gastric Banding Center

Feb 2nd, 2023 - In the 70years that bariatric surgery has existed, many different surgical procedures have been developed. Four procedures are officially accepted by all learned societies: adjustable gastric banding (AGB), sleeve gastrectomy (SG), Roux-en-Y gastr...

Jan 29th, 2023 - Like most Western armies, obesity affects Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel. Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for obesity. However, this is not yet accepted for active-duty soldiers in most countries. The CAF have approved bariatric...

Jan 27th, 2023 - This study reviews the prevalence of iron deficiency (ID) in bariatric surgery candidates and the long-term outcomes of the prevalence of ID after bariatric surgery. A systematic literature search and meta-analysis were performed in PubMed for art...

Jan 24th, 2023 - Bariatric surgery (BS) is a relatively novel surgical field and is in continuous expansion and evolution. Aim of this study was to report changes in Italian surgical practice in the last decade. The Società Italiana di Chirurgia dell'Obesità (SICO...

Jan 12th, 2023 - Bariatric surgery has been associated with a reduced risk of cancer in individuals with obesity. The association of bariatric surgery with esophageal and gastric cancer is still controversial, however. To compare the incidence of esophageal and ga...

Jan 22nd, 2022 - The European Association for Endoscopic Surgery Bariatric Guidelines Group identified a gap in bariatric surgery recommendations with a structured, contextualized consideration of multiple bariatric interventions. To provide evidence-informed, tra...

Feb 15th, 2011 - The young field of obesity surgery (bariatric surgery) in Germany expands as a consequence of the rapid increase of overweight and obesity. New surgical methods, minimal access techniques, and the enormous increase of scientific studies and eviden...

Nov 10th, 2022 - Among the techniques of bariatric surgery, the gastric Y bypass according to Roux (RYGB) allows greater weight loss and more lasting over time than sleeve gastrectomy and gastric banding. However, around 20% of patients will regain weight within 2...

Nov 2nd, 2022 - The coupled disorders of morbid obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) are a major and growing public health problem in Canada. The Public Health Agency of Canada 2011 report, Obesity in Canada, showed that 5.1% and 2.7% of Canadians had obesity class ...

Oct 19th, 2022 - Weight loss (WL) improves obesity-related co-morbidities such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Unfortunately, WL through life-style interventions has a high degree of relapse and the lack of safe, effective and affordable therapies together with ...

Aug 25th, 2022 - Obesity is an increasing health problem in the UK and one which is predicted to worsen. It is associated with many health problems that can shorten a person's life span and impair quality of life. Current national guidelines recommend that surgery...

Aug 5th, 2022 - The Specific Aims of the first phase of the study are as follows: Aim 1. To determine the feasibility of performing a randomized trial comparing two major types of bariatric surgery, Laparoscopic Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (RNY) and Laparoscopic Adj...

Jan 11th, 2023 - Undergoing bariatric surgery for severe obesity was linked to a decreased incidence of esophageal and gastric cancer and overall in-hospital mortality, a French cohort study showed. Among mostly women, the incidence rates of these cancers were 4.9...

Dec 14th, 2022 - Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) was associated with an increased risk of alcohol use disorder (AUD)-related hospitalizations compared with sleeve gastrectomy and a weight management program, a Veterans Affairs cohort study indicated. After adjusti...

Dec 12th, 2022 - Patients with Class I obesity can be treated effectively with bariatric surgery, which reduces BMI and comorbidities over 5 years, according to a single-center study. In a retrospective analysis of patients who underwent bariatric surgery for Clas...

Nov 5th, 2022 - SAN DIEGO –Patients who underwent bariatric surgery saw a reduction in all-cause mortality that held strong over multiple years, researchers reported. In a retrospectives study, bariatric surgery patients were 16% less likely to die from any cause...

Sep 23rd, 2022 - Bariatric surgery among adolescents or young adults with severe obesity leads to durable reductions in body weight along with dramatic reductions in rates of diabetes, hypertension, and depression, according to new research in the Journal of the A...