mybiglife, 20th April 2010

Obesity brings health risks, and this is no different for pregnant women. Obesity during pregnancy has impact not only on the woman but also on the unborn baby. This condition may also bring chronic diseases in the future.

Some research have been carried out to see if bariatric surgery has any impact on pregnancy. The results were very interesting: weight-loss surgery can reduce the risk of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy, including gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and eclampsia.

The study was carried out by Wendy L. Bennett, assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The aim of the research was to determine if bariatric surgery could prevent the development of these diseases.

Medscape, 12th April 2010

Some research has been carried out to see if there is relation with overweight patients with psychiatric illnesses and weight-loss surgery. The study shows that those patients lose similar weight as the patients without mental issues.

Weight-loss depends on numerous factors. The surgery is only one of them. An important cofactor is the presence of a psychiatric diagnosis but the newest reserach shows that even individuals with depression, anxiety or any psychological disorder experienced similar levels of weight loss compared with those with no psychiatric diagnoses.

wkow.com, 7th April 2010

Very often patients who lost weight thanks to the weight-loss surgery are still not happy with their shape. Excess skin looks heavy and even healthy diet and exercising cannot do much about it.

The good news is a new procedure, called coset trunkplasty, that “removes a significant amount of skin from the entire abdomen, from the flanks, from the lower chest, even the upper back and the lower back”, says Dr. Moya from Pennsylvania’s Geisinger Medical Center.