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Britain's National Health Service could save millions of pounds a year by offering more weight-loss surgery for obese patients, a medical study said Wednesday.
Washington, Sep 8 : A new study has suggested that obese women who have undergone bariatric surgical procedures before pregnancy are three times less likely to develop gestational diabetes (GDM) than women who have bariatric operations after delivery.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons Study Finds Obese Women Who Undergo Bariatric Procedures Before Pregnancy Are Three Times Less Likely to Have Gestational DiabetesObese women who have bariatric surgical procedures before pregnancy were three times less likely to develop gestational diabetes (GDM) than women who have bariatric operations after delivery, according to new research ...
Triangle - The Brazilian Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery (SBCBM), the world’s second-largest bariatric surgery society, today announced the launch of a center of excellence program for bariatric surgery providers in Brazil.
I would like to clarify some points on bariatric surgery after reading Christina Blizzard's article Obtuse plan for obese surgery (Sept. 1, The Nugget). Ontario has a plan to help more bariatric patients get this important surgery closer to home and save tax dollars in the process.[...]
Obese women who have bariatric surgical procedures before pregnancy were three times less likely to develop gestational diabetes (GDM) than women who have bariatric operations after delivery, according to new research findings published in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The retrospective study also found that delivery after bariatric procedures was ...
An Ottawa doctor says Ontario's push to expand access to weight-loss surgery in the province is leading to longer wait times because of stricter rules on covering out-of-province procedures.
Re: Obtuse plan for obese surgery (Sept. 1). I would like to clarify some points on bariatric surgery after reading Christina Blizzard's column. Ontario has a plan to help more bariatric patients get this important surgery closer to home and save tax dollars in the process.[...]
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Is Gastric Bypass Weight Loss Surgery Right For You?
Author:
Lana Hampton
Weight loss surgery can be divided into three types:
1. Restrictive procedures to reduce the size of your stomach, 2. Mal-absorptive procedures alter the flow from your stomach to your intestine, and 3. Combination procedures that involve the characteristics of both of the above procedures.
This article will be focusing on the first option.
Gastric bypass surgery is one type of weight loss surgical procedures that can be used, and is actually commonly used, to cause significant weight loss for a patient that is exceedingly obese. Gastric bypass surgery is designed to reduce the body's intake of calories. Calorie reduction through this surgery is accomplished in two main ways:
1. After the surgery, the patient’s stomach is actually smaller than it was. This means that the patient will feel full faster and it will be easier for the candidate to learn to reduce the amount of food that he/she consumes. 2. Part of the patient’s stomach and small intestines are literally bypassed in the food consumption process so that fewer calories are absorbed by the candidate.
Prior to any successful weight loss operation, the patient’s doctor will give the patient a complete medical examination to evaluate the patient’s state of overall health. A psychological evaluation will also be undertaken. If at the conclusion of the consultation and evaluation, the doctor does not feel the patient is ready, then the surgery will not be recommended. Should the doctor recommend the procedure, then the patient will receive extensive nutritional counseling before (and after) the surgery.
Gastric bypass surgery is always performed under anesthesia. There are two basic steps to the surgery:
1. The first step in the surgery makes the patient's stomach smaller. The surgeon divides the stomach into a small upper section and a larger bottom section using staples that are like stitches. The top section of the stomach will hold any digested food.
2. After the stomach has been divided, the surgeon connects a section of the small intestine to the pouch. This ensures that the food bypassed the lower portion of the stomach.
Gastric bypass surgery can be performed using a laparoscope. This technique is actually far less invasive than traditional surgery. The incisions are much smaller and therefore are a little less painful and a lot less noticeable, which lowers the risk of large scars and hernias after the procedure. Once the small incisions are made in the abdomen, then the surgeon passes slender surgical instruments through these narrow openings, as well as, a camera so that he or she can see the maneuvering of the instruments.
If you have gastric bypass surgery, then you will usually need to stay in the hospital for 4 to 5 days after the doctor performs the surgery on you. Your doctor will approve your discharge to go back home once you are able to do the following:
1. Move without too much discomfort, 2. Eat liquid and/or pureed food without vomiting it back up, and 3. No longer requiring pain medication to be administered by injection.
You will remain on liquid or pureed food for several weeks after the surgery. Even after that time, you will feel full very quickly. This is because the new stomach pouch initially only holds a tablespoonful of food. The pouch eventually expands but will generally allow you no more than one cup of food.
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Providing surgical treatment for people who are morbidly obese could save British taxpayer-funded health services and the wider economy hundreds of millions of pounds a year, leading surgeons said on Wednesday.
An Ottawa doctor says Ontario's push to expand access to weight-loss surgery in the province is leading to longer wait times because of stricter rules on covering out-of-province procedures.
By: Ann Compton Kibler, the resident hall coordinator for Honors Hall, once topped the scales at 520 pounds before deciding to have the weight loss surgery on June 3, 2009. ...
Report urges increase in gastric bypass ops as tens of thousands of patients 'missing out' The extremely low availability of surgery to correct obesity is leading over the long term to the expenditure of hundreds of millions of pounds in benefit payments and costs to the NHS, a report says. Not offering a gastric bypass or gastric band surgery to people who are extremely overweight means that ...
THURSDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Obese women who have weight loss surgery before they get pregnant are three times less likely to develop gestational diabetes and are also less likely to require a cesarean section, a new study finds.
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