When Might Obesity Surgery Be Right?
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- Obesity surgery becoming popular choice locally to reduce medical costs. Franks, Jonathan // Business Journal Serving Fresno & the Central San Joaquin Valley;01/12/98, Issue 322250, p3
Features several Fresno, California-based surgeons that perform gastric bypass with roux en Y for obese persons. Diseases associated with the obesity; Difference of Herbert E. Gladen's procedure from other weight loss programs; Concerns of several physicians on the use of the procedure;...
- The Bariatric Surgical Weight Loss Program at Sound Shore Medical Center. // Fairfield County Business Journal;5/27/2002, Vol. 41 Issue 21, pS7
Discusses the Bariatric Surgical Weight Loss Program, a minimally invasive surgical procedure offered at Sound Shore Medical Center in Westchester, New York. Benefits of the program to unhealthful obese individuals; Techniques and procedures used in the program; Complications associated with...
- FAT CHANCE. Weir, Kirsten // Current Science;1/7/2005, Vol. 90 Issue 9, p8
Presents information related to weight-loss (bariatric) surgery among teenagers in the U.S.
- Weight loss surgery in older patients. // Patient Care;11/30/1993, Vol. 27 Issue 19, p84
Presents an overview of the scientific paper `Gastric Surgery in Morbid Obesity: Outcome In Patients 55 Years and Older' by A.M. Macgregor and C.S. Rand published in 1993 in the `Archives of Surgery' journal. Average of six years follow up; Average weight loss; Average decrease in body mass index.
- Experts call for increase in bariatric surgery. // British Journal of Hospital Medicine (17508460);Nov2010, Vol. 71 Issue 11, p609
The article reports that experts in the taskforce Severe and Complex Obesity is urging for immediate action to help severely obese people with diabetes through improved access to bariatric surgery.
- The Severely Obese Patient: Neglected Again? Schirmer, Bruce // Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques;Feb98, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p1
Editorial. Deals with the technical difficulty encountered by surgeons when performing minimally invasive surgery on a severely obese patient. Societal bias existing against severely obese person; Prevalence of severe obesity in the United States; Recommendations for surgeons.
- Topsy-turvy medicine. Frederick, Larry // Cortlandt Forum;1/25/2005, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p5
Introduces article about bariatric surgery published in the January 2005 issue of "Cortlandt Forum."
- Willpower-Free Dieting. Lambert, Emily // Forbes Global;5/12/2003, Vol. 6 Issue 10, p59
Reports on the growing popularity of bariatric surgery, a stomach surgery to address the problem of obesity. Reason for the popularity of the surgery in the U.S.; Samples of patients who died from complications as a result of the surgery; Mortality rate for the surgery.
- Back from being fat! Stivers, Tanya; Shannon, Jacqueline // Cosmopolitan;Nov97, Vol. 223 Issue 5, p144
Narrates the author's experiences of being a 300-pounds woman who went down to 130 pounds after undergoing the laparoscopic bypass surgery. Factors that contributed to the author's obesity; How she learned about the operation; Process involved in the operation; Outcome of her operation; how she...
