Bariatric Surgery

WASHINGTON — Bariatric surgery was associated with improved clinical outcomes and more cost-effective health care resource utilization among patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, according to data.

WASHINGTON — The Primary Obesity Surgery Endoluminal 2.0 procedure is a “safe, effective and durable option” for weight loss and improvement in obesity-related conditions, according to a presenter.

The disease of obesity often brings cardiometabolic consequences, including hypertension, which remains the most potent and predictive risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

Today, we are closer than ever to achieving the weight loss seen with bariatric surgery, and we are starting to see emerging evidence of cardiovascular risk reduction, type 2 diabetes remission, improvement in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and more. This “new” class of medications has been around for more than 18 years. We know the safety profiles; they are manageable.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — A patient on dialysis who lost weight after bariatric surgery was able to reduce the number of home hemodialysis sessions from five to four treatments without adverse outcomes, researchers said here.

Women with obesity who undergo bariatric surgery and have higher levels of insulin have a lower risk for breast cancer than women who do not undergo surgery, according to findings published in JAMA Surgery.

DENVER — Individualized care is critical for treating childhood obesity, according to a presenter at the Obesity Medicine Association’s annual conference.

Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty was more cost-effective and sustained greater weight loss over 5 years compared with semaglutide for patients with class II obesity, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

Adults with type 2 diabetes have a reduction in overall health care costs after bariatric surgery, regardless of whether they underwent gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy, according to study findings published in Obesity.

Researchers found that middle-aged adults who adhered closest to a healthy plant-based diet had a reduced risk for developing diabetes.