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A study led Pennington Biomedical researchers highlights growing disparities in standard surgical care access for individuals with extreme obesity and Americans with the highest levels of obesity are undergoing fewer surgical procedures overall. These procedures include common operations like knee or hip replacement, hernia surgery, and surgery of the breast, prostate and colon – operations that are frequently done to treat cancer. “Understanding and addressing these disparit

Patients weighing 450 pounds (lbs) or more face barriers and discrimination when scheduling or attending doctor visits at subspecialty...

Welcome to our regular round-up of the latest bariatric and obesity-related papers published in the medical literature. As ever, we have...

In a recent cross-sectional study, researchers from Pennington Biomedical Research Center found that severe obesity is associated with a...

In the past 20 years, the average rate of obesity among adults in the US has risen by approximately 30%, but the rate of those with the...

Bariatric and metabolic surgery (BMS) is largely safe and effective for patients who are living with severe obesity, according to a team...

For patients with severe obesity undergoing knee or hip replacement, commonly obtained laboratory values - including markers of anaemia...

Researchers from the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, have report that bariatric surgery, compared with nonsurgical care, was...

Adults (aged 18 or older) with severe obesity generate a significantly weaker immune response to COVID-19 vaccination compared to those...