Times of India, 23rd August 2009

Decision about weight-loss surgery is never easy. Dr. Stephen Hamn from Baylon Medical Centrer at Frisco suggests a few tips before making a decision.

First of all, do not rush into the decision about the programme. This is very important as will inform about available possibilities as well as post-operative care.

Remember to consult doctors about different types off surgeries. You will be then able to chose between gastric bypass, gastric banding or gastric sleeve.

Weight Loss Surgery Channel, 16th August 2009

Latest studies show that hospitals offering higher patient volumes are safer for weight-loss procedures. The research was carried by Healthgrades and showed that patients have shorter stay and fewer complications in such hotels.

The survey rated the quality of weight-loss surgery services and studied the complications reported by patients. Hospitals with lower number of complications were awarder “stars� - the less complications, the more stars the hospital got.

The results showed that the hospitals with higher patient volume got more stars than hospitals with fewer patients. The study conclusion was that “patients who had weight loss surgery at the high volume hospitals were almost 70% less likely to develop post-surgical complications than patients getting the same procedure in lower-volume hospitals�.

Telegraph.co.uk, 12th August 2009

More and more people undergo weight-loss procedures. Within the last year only the numbers have risen by more than a half.

Between May 2008 and April 2009 there the health services carried out 52% more weight-loss surgeries than previous year. Most of the weigh-loss surgery patients are women.

Rising popularity of such procedures is due to its efficacy but also due to TV stars admitting undergoing weight-loss surgery.

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in a publication from 2006 states that patients with BMI of 50 can be considered for weight-loss procedure. Numerous researches show that such operations can significantly improve patients’ health issues caused by obesity.

Mirror.co.uk, 28th July 1009

William McBride was 14 stone at the age of 10. He could barely walk, not to mention other activities other 10-year-olds do.

William was the world’s youngest patient who underwent the weight-loss surgery. He lost five stone in a year and, as he says, the operation changed his life.

Today William is 12 and weights just over eight stone. “I just feel so good and I don’t have to spend my days in a wheelchairâ€�, he says. “I can still eat what I want, but I’m no longer hungry all the time. My life has changed so much. I can walk wherever I want to go and just feel so much better.”
Obesity is a rising problem all over the world. In England, it doubled in the last fifteen years. Reports predict that 90% of today’s children could be overweight by 2050.