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Metabolic and bariatric surgery offers significantly greater long-term protection against major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE, eg heart attack, stroke) and death than GLP-1 drugs in older adults with obesity and diabetes, according to real-world analysis study, ‘Cardiometabolic outcomes of metabolic surgery versus GLP-1 receptor agonists in older adults with diabetes and obesity (Abstract ID: 4719)’, presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Metabolic

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine (University of Southern California) have found that teenagers with higher blood levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) measured before metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS) had smaller improvements in blood sugar over five years, including fasting glucose and haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), which measures average blood sugar levels over the past 60–90 days. The results, suggest that PFAS exposure may help explain why metabolic o

Bariatric and metabolic surgery is more effective than medications and lifestyle interventions for the treatment of advanced...