Obesity is an increasingly prevalent cardiovascular risk factor. It implies a hemodynamic overload, leading to functional anatomical changes in the heart, with ventricular hypertrophy and systo-diastolic dysfunction. The most effective treatment is bariatric surgery, which has a cardioprotective effect, improving ventricular geometry and function. We analyzed medium-term structural and function...

Laparoscopic procedures for morbid obesity are becoming standard of care which, in experienced hands, has a very low mortality and morbidity. Superior mesenteric vein thrombosis has been reported in the literature after different bariatric and nonbariatric laparoscopic procedures. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is a relatively new procedure in the treatment of morbid obesity; its complications...

Background. Morbid obesity in a pregnancy is a great challenge to medical practice especially when the patient requires caesarean section. Case Summary. A 38-year-old unbooked gravida 3 Para 2(+0) weight 195 kg, height 1.7 m with a blood pressure of 210/160 mmhg had spinal anaesthesia for emergency caesarean section which was technically difficult for severe preeclampsia at 32-week gestation. S...

139 Anesthetizing the morbidly obese patient can be a daunting task for the anesthesia trainee or the seasoned anesthesiologist. As a large population across our country marches toward an obesity epidemic, and the world moves onto a super morbid obese pandemic, it becomes pertinent that we update ourselves with the requisite knowledge and skills needed for safe perioperative care of morbidly ob...

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This paper considers effects of body mass on wages in the years following labor market entry. The preferred models allow current wages to be affected by both past and current body mass, as well as past wages, while also addressing the endogeneity of body mass. I find that a history of severe obesity has a large negative effect on the wages of white men. White women face a penalty for a history ...

A dramatic rise in obesity has occurred among humans within the last several decades. Little is known about whether similar increases in obesity have occurred in animals inhabiting human-influenced environments. We examined samples collectively consisting of over 20 000 animals from 24 populations (12 divided separately into males and females) of animals representing eight species living with o...

a Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. b Department of Public Health, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. c Department of Digestive Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Correspondence to Claudia Bambs (e-mail: [email protected]). doi:10.2471/BLT.07.048785 (Submitted: 18 October 200...

Behavioral treatments for morbid obesity have not been effective, possibly because of a poor understanding of the relations of psychosocial factors and exercise and eating behaviors. Recent research suggests that exercise program-induced improvements in self-efficacy and self-regulatory skills use may carry-over to self-efficacy and self-regulation for controlled eating. However, for individual...

2015, Differences in the rates of treatment of severe obesity using Bariatric surgery across socioeconomic groups, JAMA Surgery, vol. 150, no. 4, pp. 367-368. Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner.