Elizabeth Wolinsky was 29 in early 2012 when she decided to have LAP-BAND surgery. Although she wasn’t suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure, or any other obesity-linked conditions that lead many women to consider bariatric surgery, she...
A diamond, so the saying goes, is forever. Unfortunately, apparently so are fat cells – whose numbers seem only to increase. And sticking around creates growing problems. “It’s not fair,” observes Dr. Mustafa Ahmed, MD and founder...
What would you normally expect after weight-loss surgery? To lose weight, of course – and lots of it. But many bariatric surgery patients are surprised by after-effects of their procedure they never expected, according to Mustafa Ahmed, MD,...
Five years after undergoing weight loss surgery, obese patients are likely to begin to regain the pounds they initially shed, a new study has warned.
Experts do not deny bariatric operations are more effective to secure lasting weight loss than...
Nearly 38% of adults in the United States are obese with almost 8% being extremely obese, according to the State of Obesity, a collaborative project of the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation designed to raise...
Bariatric surgery includes a series of surgical weight loss procedures designed to help obese or morbidly obese patients who have failed to lose weight using other methods. Despite the fact that there are proven non-surgical, medically...
Weight loss surgery (WLS) also known as bariatric surgery is considered the most successful form of treatment for morbid obesity. Surgery helps provide patients with a tool to get to a healthier lifestyle and in order for surgery to be...
Bariatric surgery has been available in the U.S. for more than 50 years, and surgeons are doing more every year. In fact, our team performed 336 of these procedures in 2017, compared with 257 in 2013.
Still, bariatric surgery is still not well...
