Dumping syndrome
Overview Dumping syndrome is a condition that can develop after surgery to remove all or part of your stomach or after surgery to bypass...
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Dietary Guidelines After Bariatric Surgery
It is very important to follow the recommended dietary guidelines after undergoing bariatric surgery. These guidelines were carefully...
Obesity: Realizing the risks
Several studies have confirmed the health risks associated with childhood obesity. An early study published in PLOS Medicine showed that...
Medical Management of the Postoperative Bariatric Surgery Patient
Bariatric surgery can result in substantial weight loss and significant metabolic improvements. Therefore, clinicians should be prepared...
Metabolic surgery and nutritional deficiencies
The increasing prevalence of morbid obesity in Germany is associated with an increasing number of metabolic surgical interventions....
Nutritional deficiency after gastric bypass: diagnosis, prevention and treatment
In recent years, the recourse to obesity surgery to treat morbid obesities has grown. The number of "malabsorptive" interventions, such...
Bariatric surgery and type 2 diabetes
Bariatric surgery, or weight loss surgery, is an effective tool for long-term weight loss in people with type 2 diabetes and obesity....
A brief history of bariatric surgery
Obesity has been a problem since medieval times, but only in the latter 20 years it has been recognized as a worldwide epidemic. Treating...
Obesity & Bariatric Surgery
From a medical point of view, obesity is an "excess of fat mass causing adverse health effects". How do you assess a person's body fat?...