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...difference in weight loss between the two groups? Campos notes that although the procedure is the same from patient to patient, doctors currently do not use a standard size when creating the new stomach sac. Instead, surgeons use anatomical landmarks unique to each patient to determine the size of his or her new, smaller stomach. But because the stomach lining remains elastic and flexible, sometimes the small stapled-off pouches simply balloon back to a larger size, which explains why 5% to 15% of people who get gastric bypass surgery often experience little or no weight loss...
...death - particularly from obesity-related diseases, including diabetes and coronary artery disease - but that in some patients with diabetes the surgery is practically a cure, resulting in normalization of blood sugar, often within days. That's part of the reason that gastric bypass is now the most commonly performed weight-loss surgery in the U.S., with nearly 140,000 procedures done each year...
...study introduces a curious wrinkle in the evidence. Led by Dr. Guilherme Campos, director of the Bariatric Surgery Program at the University of California, San Francisco, the study found that gastric-bypass patients with diabetes did not lose as much weight as other patients after the surgery. Of the 310 patients in the study, 92% of those without diabetes were able to lose more than 40% of their excess weight - statistically, that's considered a successful procedure - while only 79% of diabetes patients were able to drop that much weight after one year. In both cases, doctors used the same...
...sure to add to the controversy surrounding it. "This isn't just any old epidemiological study - this is a national survey," says Frederick vom Saal, a biologist at the University of Missouri and an outspoken opponent of BPA, who wrote an editorial accompanying the JAMA study. "This carries greater weight...
...first dramatic-movie splash a couple years after Pacino earned raves for his junkie role in Panic in Needle Park. Rooster tells Turk, "You're the one I looked up to all my life and could never be." It's as if Pacino was admitting that his bantam-weight hyper-hammery, the excesses of yelling and kvelling and strutting and posturing, were his way of compensating for not having the still center of rage that Bobby D. located early in his career and made...