The authors conclude that, while RYGB is effective for long-term weight loss and can offer durable diabetes remission, the ...

also known as metabolic or diabetes surgery. These procedures, traditionally aimed at weight loss, have shown significant potential in improving blood glucose control and even achieving long-term ...

Always seek advice from your doctor on how to prepare for pregnancy, especially when you have undergone bariatric surgery.

Young people with severe obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery at age 19 or younger continued to see sustained weight loss and resolution of common obesity-related comorbidities 10 years later, ...

Researchers looked at the health records of 17 million Americans with obesity and determined that between 2022 and 2023, ...

Newer weight loss drugs are cost effective in ... to treating obesity when used before bariatric surgery. Originally used to treat type 2 diabetes, liraglutide (branded as Saxenda) and, more ...

The demand for weight loss operations dropped ... diagnosed with obesity but not diabetes. The researchers found a 25.6% drop in people undergoing bariatric surgery in the final six months of ...

Prescriptions of this GLP-1 class of diabetes ... surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Wegovy (the first GLP-1 medicine aimed at weight ...

For all the talk of Ozempic, Mounjaro, Wegovy and other weight loss drugs being ... medical conditions like diabetes or hypertension, then they meet criteria for surgery," Dr. Ali says.