By Karla Gale
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although technically more challenging, laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, a common type of stomach bypass operation, provides greater weight loss in severely obese patients than does placing a plastic band around the stomach to make it smaller, new research shows.
Stomach bypass is also more likely than banding to promote the resolution of diseases often seen in obese patients, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.
Although multiple trials have compared the two procedures, this is the first study to focus specifically on patients with a BMI greater than 50 -- with super morbid obesity -- Dr. George Ferzli and his associates report in their article, published in the Archives of Surgery.
BMI is a measure of body weight for height. Values between 20 and 25 are typically considered normal. Any value of 30 or greater is considered obese. read more
- article discovered by www.ihr-online.com
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