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Extreme obesity common among bariatric surgery patients should not preclude treatment
Researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, led by Dr Vance Albaugh and lead author of the study, have reported that patients with extreme obesity are more common among those undergoing metabolic and bariatric surgery than previously recognised. However, although they face a greater burden of certain health conditions and surgical complications, their overall surgical risk remains relatively low, according to the study. Figure 1: Credit- PBRC Comorbidity burden of M
URI study to examine disparities in obesity treatment for Hispanic-Latino communities
Hispanic-Latino individuals experience some of the highest obesity rates in the US compared to other ethnic groups, but have far lower...
GLP-1 use doubles as bariatric surgery declines by 25%
A study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in collaboration with researchers at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and...
Expansion of bariatric surgery in the UK ‘challenging’ due to significant upfront economic investment
Expanding the capacity of bariatric and metabolic surgery (BMS) capacity in England beyond a small proportion of the eligible population...
Journal Watch 17/04/2024
Welcome to our weekly round-up of the latest bariatric and obesity-related papers published in the medical literature. As ever, we have...
The urgent need to understand obesity is a disease state and break the stigma around accessing care
Bariatric and metabolic surgery (BMS) is the most durable and effective treatment for weight loss, yet only one percent of currently...
A wasted decade: Access to weight management interventions in England stagnate
Access to weight management (WM) interventions in England has not improved over the last ten years despite obesity rates continuing to...
RACP calls for increased access to bariatric surgeries and medicines
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) has urged the Australian Government to increase access to bariatric surgeries to help...
NICE: Patients do not have to attempt weight loss before referral to bariatric surgery
Patients do not have to attempt weight loss by before referral to bariatric surgery, according to updated guidance issued by the National...
Despite lowering BMI threshold for eligibility, access to surgery remains low
Despite patient eligibility for bariatric surgery expanding over the last decade and its safety and effectiveness even further established in clinical studies and professional guidelines, relatively few patients with a body mass index (BMI) below 35 actually get the surgery in any given year, according to two new studies presented at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting. In the first study, ‘Bariatric Surgery for Low
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