Gastric bypass surgery is becoming increasingly common as obesity, and morbid obesity, continue to rise. However, in order to appreciate just how gastric bypass surgery works, it is necessary to understand the digestive system.
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Our stomach is like a bladder. It takes as much as you can put in.
Obviously, this does not mean that one day you could suddenly consume more than double your regular food intake. It would take a few months of over eating to build up, but then you could easily overfill your stomach.
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All surgeries have risks, and gastric bypass surgery is no exception. A recent study of Medicaid patients found the rate of serious complications, including death, to be far higher than previously recognized. Risks can be reduced (but not eliminated), by having your surgery performed at a fully approved ASBS Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence (BSCOE).
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Depending on the type of major medical insurance policy you have, most insurance companies will pay for gastric bypass surgery (also called bariatric surgery) if you meet certain conditions. However, some insurance companies have exclusion clauses for treating obesity. These companies refuse to cover any treatment related to “losing weight.” They will, however, treat the [...]
There has long been a debate over whether binge eating presents a gastric bypass risk and increases the possibility of a poor outcome following surgery. A recent report published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry may however shed new light on this argument.
The study carried out at the Yale University School of Medicine involved nearly [...]
What is Gastric Bypass Surgery?
Gastric bypass surgery makes the stomach smaller and allows food to bypass part of the small intestine.A Person will feel full more quickly than when stomach was its original size. This procedure reduces the amount of food a person eats and thus the calories consumed. Bypassing part of the [...]
While it is often easy to see why one particular individual is putting on weight it is often less easy to understand why the average weight of the population of a country should be rising, especially when that rise is both rapid and sustained, as in the case of the United States and the United [...]
While it is often easy to see why one particular individual is putting on weight it is often less easy to understand why the average weight of the population of a country should be rising, especially when that rise is both rapid and sustained, as in the case of the United States and the United [...]
Losing weight is something that many people have to face at some point in their lives. For many people it is a lifelong struggle that results in them facing the medical problems associated with obesity.
When a person becomes morbidly obese they are actually facing a much shorter life span. The human body is not [...]
Like any other type of elective surgery, gastric bypass surgery comes complete with its own set of risks. In fact, 10 to 20 percent of gastric bypass patients require follow-up surgery to correct a complication of the original weight loss surgery, according to the National Institutes of Health. The following list covers the most serious [...]
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