Struggling to lose weight with diabetes? Find out what science says about bariatric surgery vs. weight-loss drugs—and which ...

When researchers analyzed weight loss results from patients who took GLP-1 drugs and those who'd undergone bariatric surgery, ...

To improve access to care, many professional organizations have advocated for classifying obesity as a disease. However, the ...

Weight loss surgery reduces the risk of premature death, especially from such obesity-related conditions as cancer, diabetes and heart disease, according to a new 40-year study of nearly 22,000 ...

Bariatric surgery is a type of surgery that helps severely overweight people permanently lose weight. There are several types of bariatric surgery, but all of these surgeries help reduce your appetite ...

Research shows bariatric surgery is not only helping people lose weight, but also reducing their risk for cardiovascular disease and reversing type 2 diabetes.

Compare bariatric surgery to dieting and it's no contest, says John Foreyt, a psychologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who works extensively with bariatric surgery patients.

Bariatric surgery appears to set in motion a host of physiological and psychological changes beyond weight loss, in many cases resolving type 2 diabetes, ...

After four years, 9.4% of patients who got bariatric surgery reported they had separated or divorced. Among obese patients who got weight-loss advice only, 5.5% had undergone divorce or separation ...

Bariatric surgery, Stanford explained to Northam, can change that set point. It removes or bypasses most of the stomach, where some hunger-stimulating hormones are produced.

Bariatric surgery, also known as weight loss surgery, is a type of surgical procedure designed to help individuals who are living with obesity to lower their weight and improve their overall health.

“Why bariatric surgery works so well is because you’re changing lots of things at the same time,” Seeley says. Most important, bariatric surgery seems to reset, to a lower bound, the body ...