We recently posted about a new report on gastric bypass for older patients. The report that we cited has made its way into the news stream and is now popping up all over the web. If you’d like to learn more about this subject, here’s a roundup of some recent stories: Bariatric Surgery Appears Safe [...]
Weight-Loss Surgery for Patients Over 60 (Revisited)
June 20, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
Bariatric Quiz-o-Matic: A Weight-Loss Surgery Education Tool
June 19, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
A leading provider of bariatric weight-loss surgery information has created an interactive tool to teach the public about bariatric surgery. Round Rock, TX – 6/19/07 — The Bariatric Learning Center has created an online quiz to help potential patients ask the right questions before deciding on bariatric weight-loss surgery. Over the last decade or so, [...]
Gastric Bypass Surgery for Patients Over 60
June 19, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
Is bariatric weight-loss surgery (gastric bypass) safe for patients over 60 years old? That is a question posed by doctors at the Case Western Reserve University, and published in the June issue of Archives of Surgery. According to the report: …a recent review of the Medicare database … reported significant mortality rates in all Medicare [...]
Bargains on Bariatric Surgery … Yikes!
June 18, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
One of the latest trends in weight loss surgery seems to be going abroad to save money. Mexico, for example, appears to be a popular destination for surgery with the LAP-BAND® System. We blogged about LAP-BAND surgery in Mexico previously, so I won’t belabor that same point. I only offer the following advice. Regardless of [...]
Bariatric Surgery for Teens – Revisited
June 16, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
Several times in the past, we have blogged about bariatric weight-loss surgery for teens / adolescents. Because of this website’s neutrality policy, we do not recommend for or against bariatric surgery for teens. We have only written about it because it has been in the news so much lately. So I thought it might be [...]
Time Magazine Piece on Obesity Surgery
June 15, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
Time.com published a story yesterday about surgery for obesity. In addition to following the gastric bypass surgery of one particular patient, this article also sheds light on obesity surgery as a whole. It also cites a significant new study that insurance companies could spend less by approving obesity surgery for their customers (rather than covering [...]
Kids Tolerate Obesity Surgery Better Than Adults
June 14, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
In the past, we have written about obesity surgery in teens / adolescents. New evidence suggests that adolescents tolerate obesity surgery better than adults do. An article at MSNBC explains that adolescents are less prone to complications of weight loss surgery. According to the article: “[Researchers] compared post-surgical complications in 55,192 obese patients age 18 [...]
Weight Loss Surgery Lowers Risk of Heart Disease
June 14, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
It has long been known that bariatric weight-loss surgery lowers risk of heart disease in most patients. Most patients of weight loss surgery lose a significant amount of weight as a result of their surgeries. That’s the point, after all. This weight reduction has a direct, positive impact on the patient’s risk of heart disease [...]
Bariatric Surgery and Alcohol Sensitivity
June 14, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
Bariatric surgery can make more people sensitive to alcohol, Stanford surgeon finds STANFORD, Calif. — An Oprah Winfrey-inspired study done by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has found that patients who undergo gastric bypass surgery to lose weight will get drunk faster and take longer to get sober. “It may sound strange, [...]
