UAMS Neurologists Report on Link Between Gastric Bypass Surgery and Neurological Conditions LITTLE ROCK — A decade-long study by neurologists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock has found a link between the increasingly popular weight-loss surgery known as gastric bypass and several serious neurological conditions. Katalin Juhasz Pocsine, M.D., [...]
Group Studies Link Between Bariatric Surgery and Neurological Conditions
May 24, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
Bariatric Surgery and Diabetes
May 4, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
A Reuters Health story (covered here on Yahoo News) discusses the potential of laparoscopic gastric banding surgery increasing the body’s receptiveness to insulin. This would be good news for weight-loss surgery patients who also have diabetes. An excerpt: To investigate, Carroll and her team have been following 37 lap band patients for up to one [...]
Predicting the Risk of Weight-Loss Surgery
April 30, 2007 | © 2012, Brandon Cornett, All rights reserved
As a potential patient for weight-loss surgery, imagine if you could accurately predict the risk factors involved. According to a recent article in Science Daily, that appears to be the case. Researchers at Duke University developed a simple scoring system that takes into account five medical factors of patients undergoing bariatric surgery — weight, gender, [...]
