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Telemedicine can relieve barriers for access to obesity care
Telemedicine offers emerging opportunities to reduce barriers to obesity care faced by healthcare providers, patients and health plans,...


Video-endoscopic capsule could be alternative to EGD prior to bariatric surgery
Upper gastrointestinal video-endoscopic capsule (VEC) could be valid alternative to routine esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) prior...


Gastric bypass better for type 2 diabetics
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) leads to greater weight loss and a greater rate of remission of diabetes than sleeve gastrectomy or...


RYGB more efficient than SG and more evidence is needed for OAGB
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is more efficient (excess weight loss, EWL percentage) than sleeve gastrectomy (SG) after five years,...


RSIP Vision releases supporting technology for intraoperative video analysis
RSIP Vision has released a new supporting technology for intraoperative video analysis. This technology provides real-time, accurate...


Ireland to assess metabolic surgery for T2Dm treatment and obesity
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) in Ireland has begun a health technology assessment (HTA) of metabolic surgery for...


Pregnancy should be delayed post-bariatric surgery
Women who undergo bariatric surgery should be managed in the perinatal period with a multidisciplinary team to improve pregnancy-related...


RYGB reduces medication use compared to sleeve gastrectomy
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass was associated with a slightly higher incidence of discontinuing diabetes, hypertension or hyperlipidaemia...


Journal Watch 05/01/2022
Welcome to our weekly round-up of the latest bariatric and obesity-related papers published in the medical literature. As ever, we have...


Surgery induced weight loss can reduce risk of severe COVID-19 complications
Patients with obesity who previously achieved weight loss with bariatric surgery were associated with a 60% lower risk of developing...
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