Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults in Finland and Sweden with diabetes who underwent sleeve gastrectomy were more likely to die from any ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sleeve gastrectomy for class 1 obesity led to more weight loss and diabetes prevention compared with intensive ...

Bariatric surgery patients who opted for sleeve gastrectomy saw a lower risk of death, a new study found. In a retrospective cohort study of nearly 100,000 Medicare patients with severe obesity, those ...

Gastric bypass patients had a lower rate of major adverse cardiac events than sleeve gastrectomy patients over 5 years. This was driven by a 40% risk reduction for myocardial infarction among gastric ...

Orlando, Fla. — Fracture risk in people treated for obesity appears significantly lower with semaglutide (Wegovy) vs sleeve gastrectomy, new data suggest. Previous animal studies have suggested a dose ...

When NICE looked at the evidence for single-anastomosis duodeno-ileal bypass with sleeve gastrectomy, it decided that the evidence on efficacy is limited, and that there are well-recognised ...

The perioperative risk is similar and low for both laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB); therefore, that risk should not be a deciding factor in the ...

A recent study published in JAMA Network Open evaluates the differences in perioperative outcomes between laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB). Study: ...

Bariatric surgery is currently the most effective, evidence-based treatment for controlling obesity. It is the best treatment option for patients who do not achieve substantial or durable weight loss ...

Initially, the stomach is reduced in size by a sleeve gastrectomy, which involves devascularising and excising the greater curve. This leaves a tube of stomach passing from the oesophagus to the ...