Changes in gut microbiota after bariatric surgery are strongly linked to altered metabolic health and sustained improvement in type 2 diabetes, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Gothenburg. Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for obesity and type 2 diabetes, but patient outcomes vary widely. The current study, published in Nature Metabolism, suggests that the variations are partly explained by differences in how the composition of gut bacteria changes after...

The number of metabolic and bariatric surgery procedures in the United States dropped below 200,000 in 2024 for the first time since 2020, a more than 20% decline from the prior year, according to research ‘‘Examining trends in the decline of bariatric surgery – an MBSAQIP analysis (Abstract ID: 4730)’, presented at the annual scientific meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Tyler Cohn “After years of steady growth, the number of metabolic and bariatric...

Drawing on electronic health records from nearly 20 million patients with severe obesity, researchers from University of California San Diego find that GLP-1 prescriptions have grown exponentially from less than 4,600 prescriptions in 2018 to more than 1.4 million in 2025 - according to a new real-world analysis ‘Trends of bariatric surgery utilization in patients with severe obesity in the era of GLP-1 use for weight loss (Abstract ID: 4393)’ - presented at the annual scientific meeting of...