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Whether one regards bariatric surgery - last-resort weight-loss operations such as gastric bypass and stomach stapling - as an essential treatment for obesity or as a failure of the fat person's will, the fact is, it works. Studies have shown that after surgery, patients often lose 50% or more of their excess weight - and keep it off - and symptoms of obesity-related conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and sleep apnea are improved or eliminated altogether. Now, two new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) show another long-term benefit: a lower risk...
...lead author of the new study. "The interesting thing is that the resolution of diabetes happens within a few weeks following surgery, long before patients have lost their weight." Like some other researchers in the field, Adams believes that the surgery triggers other biological mechanisms, separate from weight loss - perhaps an interruption of a crucial biochemical pathway or a change in the release of certain hormones in the stomach or small intestine - that may have powerful effects on diabetes...
...gastric-bypass patient is really providing a source of intriguing research related to all kinds of disease treatment as well as weight gain and weight loss," says Adams...
...lower risk of death than the comparison group. Though the overall number of subjects in this study is much smaller than the first, the results confirm general benefits of bariatric surgery, and gastric bypass in particular: after 10 years, bypass patients had maintained a 25% weight loss, compared to a 16% loss in patients who had stomach stapling, and 14% in those who underwent a banding procedure...
...loss represented a 1 percent decrease for the endowment, based on Tuesday's figures. But even with a downturn in the market in July, when the Standard & Poor's 500 index fell by 3.1 percent, El-Erian said that the endowment showed a monthly gain of .4 percent largely because of the new risk management strategies in place...