Gastric bypass patients had a lower rate of major adverse cardiac events than sleeve gastrectomy patients over 5 years. This was driven by a 40% risk reduction for myocardial infarction among gastric ...

Garfield resident Patricia Lukens knew her life needed to change; she just didn’t know it would change during a visit at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital, where she was told she had five years to live if ...

Bariatric surgery patients who opted for sleeve gastrectomy saw a lower risk of death, a new study found. In a retrospective cohort study of nearly 100,000 Medicare patients with severe obesity, those ...