Severe obesity is associated with multiple comorbidities and is refractory to dietary management with or without behavioral or drug therapies. There are a number of surgical procedures for the treatment of morbid obesity, including purely gastric restrictive, a combination of malabsorption and gastric restriction or primary malabsorption. The purely gastric restrictive procedures, including ver...

Obesity was identified as a disease thirty years ago when, the WHO listed obesity as a disease condition in its International Classification of Diseases in 1979. The prevalence of obesity, and especially of morbid obesity, is increasing worldwide and it is today becoming a significant health hazard. Indeed, obesity rates have now reached epidemic proportions in the western hemisphere, with over...

Obesity is associated with an increased risk of death, and morbid obesity carries a significant risk of life-threatening complications such as heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Bariatric surgery is recognized as the only effective treatment of morbid obesity. The estimated number of bariatric operations performed in the United States in 2008 was more than 13 times the number per...

INTRODUCTION Despite of benefits of bariatric surgery for obesity treatment, the procedure may be related to some complications. AIM Analyze studies to address the relation between nephrolithiasis and bariatric surgery. METHODS Ten papers about this theme were selected from 2005-2013 in Pubmed, describing the relation of nephrolithiasis or their risk factors with several types of bariatric ...

The relation between morbid obesity, serious morbidity, and early mortality is well known (fig 1 and table 1).1 2 A recent systematic review of over 890 000 participants found that each 5 point increase in body mass index (kg/m2) over 25 was associated with a 30% increase in overall mortality.3 Conservative approaches to managing obesity (dieting, exercise, and cognitive behavioural therapy) ac...

INTRODUCTION According to the fetal overnutrition hypothesis, obesity in pregnancy predisposes the offspring to obesity. Previous studies have suggested that after biliopancreatic surgery for obesity, the offspring is less likely to be obese. This study aims to further compare the BMI development of children born before and after maternal surgical weight loss. METHOD Women with at least one c...

The present study aims to understand changes in health problems, health complaints and coping strategies, during the obesity treatment process with qualitative and quantitative data. Thirty bariatric patients were interviewed before bariatric surgery and at a 12-month follow-up, and fulfilled self-report measures about health problems, health complaints and coping strategies before surgery, at ...