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Safer Places For Weight-Loss Surgery
August 19th, 2009 Weight Loss Surgery Channel, 16th August 2009
Latest studies show that hospitals offering higher patient volumes are safer for weight-loss procedures. The research was carried by Healthgrades and showed that patients have shorter stay and fewer complications in such hotels.
The survey rated the quality of weight-loss surgery services and studied the complications reported by patients. Hospitals with lower number of complications were awarder “stars” - the less complications, the more stars the hospital got.
The results showed that the hospitals with higher patient volume got more stars than hospitals with fewer patients. The study conclusion was that “patients who had weight loss surgery at the high volume hospitals were almost 70% less likely to develop post-surgical complications than patients getting the same procedure in lower-volume hospitals”.
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Weight-Loss Operations Popularity
August 12th, 2009 Telegraph.co.uk, 12th August 2009
More and more people undergo weight-loss procedures. Within the last year only the numbers have risen by more than a half.
Between May 2008 and April 2009 there the health services carried out 52% more weight-loss surgeries than previous year. Most of the weigh-loss surgery patients are women.
Rising popularity of such procedures is due to its efficacy but also due to TV stars admitting undergoing weight-loss surgery.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in a publication from 2006 states that patients with BMI of 50 can be considered for weight-loss procedure. Numerous researches show that such operations can significantly improve patients’ health issues caused by obesity.
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Weight-Loss Surgery For Children
August 6th, 2009 Mirror.co.uk, 28th July 1009
William McBride was 14 stone at the age of 10. He could barely walk, not to mention other activities other 10-year-olds do.
William was the world’s youngest patient who underwent the weight-loss surgery. He lost five stone in a year and, as he says, the operation changed his life.
Today William is 12 and weights just over eight stone. “I just feel so good and I don’t have to spend my days in a wheelchair”, he says. “I can still eat what I want, but I’m no longer hungry all the time. My life has changed so much. I can walk wherever I want to go and just feel so much better.”
Obesity is a rising problem all over the world. In England, it doubled in the last fifteen years. Reports predict that 90% of today’s children could be overweight by 2050.
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Weight-Loss Surgery Program
July 28th, 2009 Weight Loss Surgery Channel, 26th July 2009
Obese patients have got a powerful tool in their fight for loss-weight – a surgery. Batriatic surgeons highlight, though, the surgery alone does not guarantee success.
The key to the satisfaction is after-surgery support and change of diet and life-style. Dr. Emma Patterson, Medical Director at Oregon Weight Loss Surgery, created a revolutionary post-op program she presented at the 2009 annual meeting in Grapevine.
Dr. Patterson is a very experienced surgeon. She has performed over 1.300 batriatic procedures. She has also trained surgeons around the world, has published journal articles, abstracts and book chapters. Dr. Patterson admits, though, that weight-loss surgery is not the magic tool that cures all obesity-related problems.
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No Age Limits For The Weight-Loss Surgery
July 22nd, 2009 Weight Loss Surgery Channel, 22nd July 2009
It was believed in the past that weight-loss procedures were not safe for the patients over 65 years of age. The new studies at Baylor University in Dallas show, however, that also older patients can benefit such procedures.
Belief that weight-loss surgeries are only suitable for young people, is wrong. The latest researches presented at the 26th annual meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Batriatic Surgery show that also patients over 65 years of age can benefit from cosmetic weight-loss with no additional risks.
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Scarless Weight-Loss Surgery
July 14th, 2009 Boston Channel.com, 13th July 2009
A new weight-loss technique that does not leave scars is being tested by doctors in New England at the moment. The procedure is called Transoral Gastroplasty (TOGA) and consists of entering the endoscope into a patient’s mouth down their esophagus. The operation can reduce the size of the stomach to about three inches long and one inch wide.
TOGA is still being tested but compared to the other procedures, it seems to be effective, less painful and reduce the recovery time.
Dr. John Kelly from the UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester says that most of the patients feel better after 24-48 hours.
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Weight-Loss Procedures Beneficial For Diabetes
July 7th, 2009 New York Times , 29 June 2009
Latest researches show that weight-loss surgery brings cure to the obese patients suffering from type 2 diabetes. The results of the study carried by the American Diabetes Association examined 177 patients. Being very obese and having type 2 diabetes, they underwent gastric bypass surgery. As many as 57% of them got cured from the disease about eight years after the procedure.
Within a year after the procedure, as many as 90% of the patients were cured from the diabetes. Unfortunately, for many of them it didn’t last.
Dr. James Maher, surgeon from Virginia Commonwealth University, said that patients who were taking insulin before the weight-loss surgery were likely to experience the set-back of the disease. His suggestion is to undergo the procedure in early stage, before starting to take the medicine. Otherwise, the results might not last.
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Weight-Loss Surgery vs Woman’s Cancer
July 1st, 2009 guardian.co.uk, 24th June 2009
The latest reports carried in Sweden show that the surgery that makes the stomach smaller, reduces the risk of cancer for overweight women. Unfortunately, it is still not clear if men would benefit from the same procedure.
As batriatic surgery usually consists of reducing the size of the stomach, people can only eat small amount of food at a time and less food is absorbed by the body. Weight-loss surgery brings good results to overweight and obese patients. In comparison with those who lost weight by diet and exercise alone, they tend to lose weight relatively quickly and keep their weight.
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Patients Happy After Weight-Loss Surgery
June 23rd, 2009 Weight Loss Surgery Channel, 22nd 2009
Last research show that patients in Canada who underwent batriatic surgery feel good, happy and are more healthy.
386 patients between 21 and 68 years old were examined by the Weight Loss Benefits survey. Only part of them managed to lose weight by the time of the survey. Three quarters of them had not reached their goal weight.
Even those results, though, gave the patients better self-esteem. It’s very good news as it means that even small results give the patients good emotions and they are more willing to keep on going.
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Weight-Loss Surgery And Unplanned Pregnancies
June 16th, 2009 Examiner.com, 15th June 2009
Obesity, epidemic of XXI century, hits especially United States of America. About two-thirds of the American population is overweight or obese.
Weight-loss is not easy. Many people, having tried more conventional methods, turn to batriatic surgery. It helps them to lose serious weight as it restricts the amount of food that can be taken. In the USA about 100.000 batriatic surgeries are taking place. The vast majority of patients (80%) are women.
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