Abstract Purpose of Review Although bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment of
severe obesity, a proportion of patients experience clinically significant weight regain (WR) …

A modern approach to obesity acknowledges the multifactorial determinants of weight gain
and the health benefits to be derived from weight loss. Foundational to any weight loss effort …

Objective The development of these updated clinical practice guidelines (CPG) was
commissioned by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, The Obesity …

Background Surgery for obesity and metabolic diseases has been evolved in the light of
new scientific evidence, long-term outcomes and accumulated experience. EAES has …

Background Bariatric surgery, despite being the most successful long-lasting treatment for
morbid obesity, remains underused as only approximately 1% of all patients who qualify for …

Major updates to 1991 National Institutes of Health guidelines for bariatric surgery Metabolic
and bariatric surgery (MBS) is recommended for individuals with a body mass index (BMI)> …

Pharmacotherapy directed toward reducing body weight may provide benefits for both
curbing obesity and lowering the risk of obesity‐associated comorbidities; however, many …

Bariatric surgery is increasingly being performed in the medically complicated obese
population as convincing data continue to mount, documenting the success of surgery not …

Weight regain is a multifactorial condition that affects many patients following bariatric
surgery. The purpose of the paper is to review the multidisciplinary approach for the …

Introduction A subset of patients undergoing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) require
eventual conversion to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) due to complications from SG or to …