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How is surgery to lose weight?
A study of the two most popular surgeries for weight loss found that obese diabetics undergoing gastric bypass surgery lost 64% of their extra kilos after a year, compared with 36% in those treated with stomach band. Regarding complications, the rates were almost the same in both procedures.
“It’s a very dramatic difference,” said Dr. Guillermo Campos, School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, and formerly of the University of California at San Francisco, whose study appears in Archives of Surgery.
The weight loss surgery is becoming increasingly popular as obese people have trouble losing weight and avoid health complications that come with being overweight, including diabetes, heart disease, joint pain and some cancers.
Previous studies suggested that the gastric band was safer than gastric bypass surgery in which doctors surgically reducing the stomach size to limit the amount of food you can eat the person.
In the case of the gastric band, doctors insert an adjustable silicone band around the upper stomach, to give the patient the feeling of satiety with small meals.
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the expanded use of the stomach band, which allows it to be implanted in people with less obesity.
In the new study, researchers compared the Allergen Inc device called Lap-Band with a form of gastric bypass surgery called Roux-en-Y. The operation was performed laparoscopic ally through small incisions in the belly.
The study included 100 people with morbid obesity that underwent placement of the Lap-Band. These patients were compared with 100 pairs of the same breed, sex, age and weight who underwent gastric bypass.
How is the performance of Health Minister Nila Heredia
The Health Minister Nile Herein, introduced on Tuesday Latin American Congress of Health, to be held in the city of La Paz from 28 to 31 March to reflect on the progress of the investigation, the relationship between health, models development and social participation of 11 countries attending.
“This meeting has a value of paramount importance because it is not just a gathering of academics, scientists, doctors in the field of health, but is a meeting to discuss experiences and meeting spaces with the new trends in health, and with it all current Latin American social medicine thought debated the concept of health in the social field, “said a news conference.
He explained that the First Latin American Congress of Health: “Social Determinants and Citizenship” will be held between 28 and 31 March at the Radisson hotel in the city of La Paz, with the participation of representatives of Colombia, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Bolivia.
The event is organized by the Program for Integrated Health (PROCOSI), under the auspices of the Ministry of Health and Sports and the technical assistance of the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization (PAHO / WHO).
Herein said that the Congress will deliberate on issues that determine the vulnerability of those populations that are food insecurity, climate change, disasters and emergencies that impact on health and the role of social participation.
“That’s why we are doing in Bolivia is Congress because here was generated health issue of whether space is within the health technician or within the society,” he said.
The Minister of Health reported that the Congress would help to learn about experiences and deepen the discussion “of what is to health, because not only technical but is cross.”
“So is that in Bolivia we are always concerned about that and incorporate the theme of intercultural approach on the right to health,” he said.
In this context, said it is “duty” of the Ministry of Health to carry out the Congress because it is of interest of the State and of Bolivian society.