Effectiveness of a Prebariatric Surgery Insurance-required Weight Loss Regimen and Relation to Postsurgical Weight Loss

Weight Loss Surgery Comparison

Outpatient Weight Loss Surgery: Initiating a Gastric Bypass and Gastric Banding Ambulatory Weight Loss Surgery Center

BACKGROUND Ambulatory surgery or outpatient surgery is becoming increasingly common. In 2002, 63% of all operations performed in the United States were ambulatory procedures. Bariatric procedures performed in the United States have increased from 16,200 in 1992 to approximately 205,000 in 2007. In 2002, our center began offering laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) procedures on an out...

Successful weight-loss maintenance in relation to method of weight loss.

This study examined the relation between method of weight loss and long-term maintenance among successful weight losers enrolled in a weight-loss maintenance trial. Participants were 186 adults (mean age = 51.6 +/- 10.7 years, mean BMI = 28.6 +/- 4.7 kg/m(2)) enrolled in the STOP Regain trial who had lost at least 10% of their body weight in the past 2 years using a very low-calorie diet (VLCD;...

Expectations for weight loss and willingness to accept risk among patients seeking weight loss surgery.

IMPORTANCE Weight loss surgery (WLS) has been shown to produce long-term weight loss but is not risk free or universally effective. The weight loss expectations and willingness to undergo perioperative risk among patients seeking WLS remain unknown. OBJECTIVES To examine the expectations and motivations of WLS patients and the mortality risks they are willing to undertake and to explore the d...

The Impact of Psychological Support on Weight Loss Post Weight Loss Surgery: a Randomised Control Trial

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the impact of a health psychology-led bariatric rehabilitation service (BRS) on patient weight loss following bariatric surgery at 1 year. METHODS A single-site open-randomised parallel group control trial based at St. Richard's Hospital in Chichester in the UK. Patients (n = 162) were recruited immediately prior to Roux-en-Y gastric ...