Type Of Weight Loss Surgery Matters For Patients With Severe Obesity,

reports a small study published in the journal Surgery found that patients who have “weight-loss surgery for extreme obesity may lose more weight with an older operation known as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass than with a newer sleeve gastrectomy procedure.” The researchers followed patients for seven years after the surgery and found that while “both types of surgery were associated with lasting weight loss as well as reductions in obesity-related health problems like diabetes, high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol,” those who had sleeve gastrectomy had less weight loss, 24 percent versus 30 percent with RGYB. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-weightloss-surgery/type-of-weight-loss-surgery-matters-for-people-with-severe-obesity-idUSKCN1LM314