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  2. Vertical banded gastroplasty surgery - Wikipedia

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    About 30% of those who undergo VBG achieve normal weight, and about 80% achieve some degree of weight loss. Most studies have suggested that 10 years after surgery, only 10% of patients maintain a minimum weight loss of at least 50% of their total excess weight at the time of their initial surgery. Some patients regain weight.

  3. Bariatrics - Wikipedia

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    The field encompasses dieting, exercise and behavioral therapy approaches to weight loss, as well as pharmacotherapy and surgery. The term is also used in the medical field as somewhat of a euphemism to refer to people of larger sizes without regard to their participation in any treatment specific to weight loss, such as medical supply catalogs ...

  4. Bariatric surgery - Wikipedia

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    Bariatric surgery (also known as metabolic surgery or weight loss surgery) is a surgical procedure used to manage obesity and obesity-related conditions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Long term weight loss with bariatric surgery may be achieved through alteration of gut hormones, physical reduction of stomach size ( stomach reduction surgery ), [ 3 ] reduction ...

  5. American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery - Wikipedia

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    The ASMBS was established in 1983. Its founding president was Edward Eaton Mason, MD, a surgeon who is considered the "father" of bariatric or obesity surgery. [8]On August 15, 2007, the ASBS changed its name to the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) to reflect mounting clinical evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of surgery on metabolic diseases, particularly type ...

  6. Gastric bypass surgery - Wikipedia

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    The gastric bypass group had an average peak alcohol breath level of 0.08%, whereas the control group had an average peak alcohol breath level of 0.05%. It took an average of 108 minutes for the gastric bypass patients group to return to an alcohol breath of zero, while it took the control group an average of 72 minutes.

  7. WeightWatchers' CEO embraced Ozempic. Now she's out of the ...

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    WeightWatchers' CEO of roughly two years, Sima Sistani, is out. She helped push the company into the white-hot weight-loss drug space. Its interim chief said the company was in a critical period ...

  8. Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong - The Huffington Post

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    “It can be stressful when [patients] start asking a lot of specific questions” about diet and weight loss, one doctor told researchers in 2012. “I don’t feel like I have the time to sit there and give them private counseling on basics. I say, ‘Here’s some websites, look at this.’”

  9. Adjustable gastric band - Wikipedia

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    Adjustable gastric band surgery is an example of bariatric surgery designed for obese patients with a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or greater—or between 35 and 40 in cases of patients with certain comorbidities that are known to improve with weight loss, such as sleep apnea, diabetes, osteoarthritis, GERD, hypertension (high blood pressure ...

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