Bariatric surgery is a powerful weight-loss tool that requires substantial diet and lifestyle changes after the operation. Ensuring enough nutrition can be challenging, with reduced stomach size and ...

Bariatric surgeries can help people with severe obesity lose weight by restricting the amount of food the stomach can hold, reducing the absorption of nutrients, or both, depending on the type of ...

Some people don’t lose enough weight after bariatric surgery, but a new study shows that adding a daily shot of GLP-1 drug liraglutide can help patients shed extra pounds and may reduce the need for ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- In order to maximize weight loss, a GLP-1 receptor agonist may be needed both before and after bariatric surgery, a retrospective analysis found. In 568 patients who underwent ...

Reductions in measured GFR after bariatric surgery were positively correlated with baseline measured GFR before surgery, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Patients who use GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) both before and after undergoing bariatric surgery experience greater weight loss than with surgery alone, new data suggested. The ...

Across all income levels, bariatric surgery resulted in better diabetes control than GLP-1s or similar medications, a study ...