Sleeve gastrectomy leads to rapid and significant weight loss in patients with obesity and advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), thereby improving eligibility for transplant, according to the results ...

The notion of weight loss to many people who are faced with obesity is not only about looks but also about health, confidence ...

(HealthDay News) — For kidney transplant (KT) candidates with obesity, sleeve gastrectomy (SG) is effective, and a considerable proportion of patients undergo KT within 20.9 months, according to a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “We found that gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy were both very effective for long-term discontinuation of ...

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 ...

In a recent phase III randomized controlled trial (RCT) published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, researchers from the Netherlands investigated and compared the long-term weight loss effects ...

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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 ...

Approximately 1 in 11 adults in the United States have severe obesity. For some people, obesity can lead to serious health conditions despite dieting, exercise, and medications. When other weight loss ...