Not exact matches
«Yet, the cost - effectiveness of bariatric surgery to
achieve weight loss prior to joint replacement and thus decrease the associated complications and costs in morbidly
obese patients was unknown.»
The study concludes that current obesity treatments are failing to
achieve sustained weight loss for the majority of
obese patients.
More research needs to be done to see if the same outcome can be
achieved in morbidly
obese patients.
«The ease with which this weight loss was
achieved in mice — even with continued caloric binging — is in stark contrast to the Herculean difficulties morbidly
obese patients experience trying to preserve weight loss through dietary restraint,» adds Dr. Gendler.
The current data, however, would suggest that these diets are safe within this relatively short period of time (2 mo), as assessed by the reported clinical biochemistry, and that, under medically supervised conditions, they could be used to
achieve considerable weight loss to improve mortality and morbidity in
obese patients.