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The Impact of Weight Loss Surgery on Health-Care Costs in Morbidly Obese Patients
During recent years, obesity has emerged as a major public health problem and is second to smoking as a leading cause of preventable, premature death in the United States and the Western World. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), … Continue reading →
Surgery Decreases Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity, and Health Care Use in Morbidily Obese Patients
In recent years, morbid obesity has emerged as a serious public health threat. After smoking, it is the second leading cause of preventable, premature death in the United States. It is estimated that there are 400,000 deaths attributable to obesity … Continue reading →
Potential of Surgery for Curing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes mellitus type 2 is an epidemic health problem, affecting more than 150 million people worldwide. This number is expected to double in the first decades of the third millennium. Recently, evidence for reduction of complications of type 2 diabetes … Continue reading →
Overweight, Obesity, and Mortality in a Large Prospective Cohort of Persons 50 to 71 Years Old
Substantial epidemiologic evidence indicates that obesity, defined by a body-mass index (BMI) (the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) of 30.0 or more, is associated with an increased risk of death. However, whether overweight … Continue reading →
Obesity and Mortality from Cancer
Laboratory investigators have long known that animals in which energy intake is reduced to about 60 percent of the intake of animals that are fed as much as they want have a considerably lower incidence of cancer than the control … Continue reading →
Long term mortality and health care use
In recent years, morbid obesity has emerged as a serious public health threat. After smoking, it is the second leading cause of preventable, premature death in the United States. It is estimated that there are 400,000 deaths attributable to obesity … Continue reading →
Diabetes and Bariatric Surgery
When a diabetic patient suffers also from severe or morbid obesity, the bariatric surgery (gastric bypass or biliopancreatic diversion) is the best treatment alternative for the management of their disease. After a bariatric surgery, a very early and complete control … Continue reading →
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