Bariatric surgery is an effective long-term treatment for patients who suffer from morbid obesity, the incidence of which is increasing in North America. Laparoscopic gastric bypass and laparoscopic ...

Obesity — and its extreme form, morbid obesity — is a chronic, multifactorial disorder associated with numerous economic, social, and psychological factors. Obesity causes medical complications and is ...

Extremely obese patients who undergo gastric bypass procedures may have fewer complications, a greater reduction in obesity-related diseases, more weight loss and a higher level of satisfaction than ...

Among weight-loss surgery options, gastric bypass comes with more complications shortly after surgery than gastric banding, but makes up for it with fewer long-term side effects and repeat operations, ...

It has been suggested that the reduction in plasma ghrelin concentrations in five morbidly obese patients after treatment with a proximal Roux-en-Y gastric bypass contributed to the weight-reducing ...

A study of the two most popular weight-loss surgeries found obese diabetics who had gastric bypass surgery lost 64 percent of their excess weight after a year, compared with 36 percent in those ...

SEATTLE—Bypass resulted in much greater weight loss and fewer reoperations than did banding, according to a large national study in JAMA Surgery comparing two of the gastric surgery procedures that ...

Carnie Wilson, 57, from the band Wilson Phillips, opened up on social media about her "very scary" ordeal after having her laparoscopic adjustable gastric band (lap band) taken out. The singer had ...

Credit: Getty Images Our easy-to-read fact sheet provides an overview of weight loss surgical procedures, such as gastric sleeve and gastric bypass. Our easy-to-read fact sheets provide clinicians ...