All Articles on Obesity

• Gastric bypass surgery helps diabetes but doesn’t cure it

  After gastric bypass surgery, diabetes goes away for some people—often even before they lose much weight. So does that mean gastric surgery “cures” diabetes? Not necessarily, according to the largest community-based study of long-term diabetes outcomes after bariatric surgery. For most people in the study, e-published in advance of print in Obesity Surgery, diabetes either never remitted after gastric surgery or relapsed within five years.
• Obesity research: Creating healthier families and neighborhoods

  Obesity-related illnesses cost more than $190 billion annually. Interventions that introduce healthy behaviors in one family might have a ripple effect, spreading through networks and possibly reducing health care costs.
• Obesity and depression independently increase health costs

  Obesity and depression both dramatically increase health care costs, but they mainly act separately, according to a study published in the November 2011 Journal of General Internal Medicine by Group Health Research Institute scientists.
• In study, video helps people weigh bariatric surgery pros, cons

  First randomized trial of shared decision making for weight-loss surgery.
• No fewer deaths in VA patients with bariatric surgery

  Patients in Veterans Affairs study were older and higher risk.
• A healthy menu: Group Health approaches to weight-loss and obesity research

  Nearly one in three Americans are obese and the condition doubled among American adults from 1980 to 2000, say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health.