New approach can help identify young children most at risk for obesity
A newly developed risk score can synthesise genetic information into an easy-to-interpret metric that could help clinicians identify...
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ADA recommendations for obesity and weight management for T2DM prevention and treatment
The Professional Practice Committee of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has published the latest recommendations for obesity and...
GENEVA: No difference in 30-day morbidity and mortality of SG, RYGB and OAGB patients
There is no significant difference in the 30-day morbidity and mortality of sleeve gastrectomy (SG), Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), and...
Journal watch 24/11/2021
Welcome to our weekly round-up of the latest bariatric and obesity-related papers published in the medical literature. As ever, we have...
Adverse effects of obesity medications
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati’s James L Winkle College of Pharmacy have analysed the adverse events attributed to the use...
How the Diabetic Surgery Summit contributed to define the protocols for the metabolic surgery again
Dr. Francesco Rubino took the stage again on the second day of the XXI Bariatric Surgery Congress to discuss the role of the Diabetic...
We’re not acting fast enough against diabetes and obesity
In a data packed panel, Dr. Steven Nissen showed how the consequences of not catching up to the obesity and diabetes epidemic are...
Results and conclusions of the STAMPEDE trial
The STAMPEDE trial is one of the most quoted by scholars that study the efficacy and safety of metabolic surgery in comparison to...
How is ASMBS spreading the awareness of the benefits of metabolic surgery to fight the surge of T2DM
In the 21 years since the first discovery of the benefits of bariatrics surgery to the control of diabetes, bigger and bigger strides...
Stigma and shame by medical professionals might be as damaging as as obesity itself
On the second day of the 2021 Brazilian Bariatric Surgery Congress, happening in São Paulo, Dr. Francesco Rubino made a powerful critic...
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