Sentences with phrase «obese patients undergo»

Some 15 years ago, during a fellowship at New York Medical College, he observed morbidly obese patients undergo open bariatric surgery — an old - school Roux - en - Y, done with giant incisions and often yielding horrendous complications.

Previous studies have shown that bariatric surgery in patients who are morbidly obese can reduce weight and comorbidities, but clinicians have not known whether the surgery is helpful or harmful to morbidly obese patients undergoing a joint replacement.

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There's good news from UMass Medical School for overweight people with painfully arthritic hips and knees: A new study finds that obese patients who underwent knee or hip replacement surgery reported virtually the same pain relief and improved function as normal - weight joint replacement patients six months after surgery.

Severely obese patients should be screened for nutritional deficiencies, regardless of whether they've undergone weight loss surgery.»

Using available databases reflecting the utilization of health services in California, Florida and Nebraska — all three of which give access to deidentified information on individual patients — the research team identified 2,261 obese patients with asthma who underwent bariatric surgery from 2007 to 2009 and for whom information covering the two years before and after their surgery was available.

What happens when a severely obese, diabetic patient undergoes weight loss (bariatric) surgery?

What we know: obese insulin resistant patients undergo a spontaneous reduction in appetite upon initiating a carbohydrate - restricted diet.