Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . McTigue and colleagues analyzed data from 9,710 adults with type 2 diabetes who underwent Roux-en-Y or sleeve ...

ORLANDO -- Five years following surgery, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass patients had greater weight loss versus sleeve gastrectomy patients, researchers reported here. In a retrospective analysis presented ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is a weight loss surgery that makes your stomach smaller and reroutes your intestines. You feel full faster, so you eat less. It can also affect how you absorb calories and ...

In a recent phase III randomized controlled trial (RCT) published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, researchers from the Netherlands investigated and compared the long-term weight loss effects ...

The perioperative risk is similar and low for both laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB); therefore, that risk should not be a deciding factor in the ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) led to greater excess body mass index (BMI) loss than sleeve gastrectomy in patients with severe obesity over 10 years, with the latter procedure being associated with ...

Bariatric surgery on an obese patient. There is no statistically significant difference in weight loss at 5 years after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy vs laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults who underwent gastric bypass had more excess BMI loss 10 years after surgery than those who had a sleeve ...

A recent study published in JAMA Network Open evaluates the differences in perioperative outcomes between laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB). Study: ...

All available treatments directed towards obesity and obesity-related complications are associated with suboptimal effectiveness/invasiveness ratios. Pharmacological ...

Credit: Getty Images Our easy-to-read fact sheet provides an overview of weight loss surgical procedures, such as gastric sleeve and gastric bypass. Our easy-to-read fact sheets provide clinicians ...