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., associate professor [...]
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 year. Those [...]
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, age, [...]
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May 24, 2007 6:29 am | 
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