Gastroenterology

Gastric banding shows improvements in cardiovascular risk, lipids and glucose and the benefits persisting at 5 years and continuing….

John, 59 years old, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at two years of age.

Both laparoscopic gastric banding and Roux-en-Y bypass surgery improved beta-cell function and insulin sensitivity….

Information coming from the largest community-based study of long-term diabetes outcomes after gastric bypass surgery shows that for mostpeople in the study, diabetes either never remitted after gastric surgery or relapsed within five years….

Electrical stimulation (ES) at specific acupuncture points could relieve gastroparesis symptoms associated with diabetes, such as nausea, vomiting, early satiety, abdominal fullness, upper abdominal pain and bloating….

Patients who underwent a duodenal switch procedure lost more weight and gained better control of diabetes and hypertension compared with those who had gastric bypass surgery….

Gastric emptying of solids and liquids, and gastrointestinal symptoms remain stable over time in patients with long-term type 1 and type 2 diabetes….

Remission of type 2 diabetes in severely obese people after bariatric surgery hinges on baseline beta cell function, not weight loss….

Black women experienced less weight loss than white women after gastric bypass surgery….

Being older, male, or black significantly raised the risk for weight-loss failure after gastric bypass in a single-center study of more than 1,200 patients….