Bariatric surgeries are typically safe and require thorough preparation and follow-up. Life-threatening complications are rare, but possible.

After two years, people who undergo metabolic and bariatric surgery achieve weight loss that is about five times greater than ...

Most Americans are wrong about surgical treatments for obesity, medical professionals have warned. That assessment comes after a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults found that so-called ...

Bariatric surgery can help obese people lose significant weight, but afterward, you must have your nutrient levels regularly monitored and take supplements for the rest of your life. That's because a ...

More than half of patients with diabetes and a history of metabolic surgery (51%) experienced remission of their diabetes even if they did not achieve significant weight loss after surgery, according ...

Bariatric surgery provides effective and durable treatment for high blood pressure in patients with severe obesity, long-term follow-up of the GATEWAY study shows. Five years after Roux-en-Y gastric ...

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Treatment with incretin-based weight-loss medications, like GLP-1 receptor agonists, after bariatric surgery was associated with significantly lower risks of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and initiation ...

Hundreds of bariatric surgery centers were able to successfully implement the Bariatric Surgery Targeting Opioid Prescribing (BSTOP) protocol and reduce their intraoperative, postoperative, and ...