Bariatric Surgery

Weight Loss Surgery Most Risky for Smokers

Posted: Jul 27 in Weight Loss Tips by admin

If you are a smoker who is obese or overweight, you may want to consider quitting smoking before undergoing any type of bariatric surgery. A new study of adults who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery, or laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, showed that smokers were at a higher risk for complications, including the development of strictures, ulcers, and fistulae.

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Addiction Transference

Posted: Jun 15 in Weight Loss Tips by admin

Anyone who is considering lap band surgery to lose weight should always be informed of both the benefits and the risks involved. One such risk that has become recently discovered is addiction transference, when a patient develops some form of addiction after undergoing lap band or another bariatric surgery procedure.

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Weight Loss Surgery and Type 2 Diabetes Remission

Posted: Nov 16 in Weight Loss Tips by admin

Recent scientific studies have shown that weight loss surgery may help treat some cases of Type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is a disease that is typically associated with obesity. It is commonly treated with a weight loss plan of diet and exercise as well as insulin injections. However, new evidence suggests that weight loss [...]

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Choosing A Weight Loss Surgery Center

Posted: Nov 03 in Weight Loss Tips by admin

The decision to have weight loss surgery often comes after years of trying and failing to lose weight on your own. After struggling with numerous diets and exercise plans, surgery can offer a permanent solution for your weight loss goals. But the more weight loss surgery success stories there are, the more centers become available [...]

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Advantages of the Duodenal Switch Surgery

Posted: Oct 03 in Weight Loss Tips by admin

While gastric bypass and LAP-BAND surgery have a higher profiles in media and support forums throughout the United States, it often surprises people to know that duodenal switch weight loss surgery has better weight loss results and higher levels of patient satisfaction than either of the more commonly performed procedures. Duodenal switch surgery is a more complicated [...]

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Weight Loss Expectations after Bariatric Surgery

Posted: Jul 20 in Weight Loss Tips by admin

There are so many different weight loss surgeries to choose from that the literature you must study before you decide on one is tremendous. While there are many factors to consider before you decide which weight loss surgery procedure to undergo, weight loss expectations following bariatric surgery is a significant factor for many people. Although [...]

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