04
May
The Most Challenging Clinical Case of My Medical Career
Case StudyA professional lawyer with diabetes type II and high blood pressure, was summited to metabolic bariatric surgery. After 24 hours, in post-op, he started bleeding in the high digestive tube, for this reason we had to re-operate. An endoscopy was performed that showed ero...
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May
30 Minutes That Can Save Your Life!
Bariatric Surgery as preventionObesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, Canada and Mexico, as well as in many other countries around the world. The most rapidly growing segment of the obese population is the severely obese (morbidly obese). The health conseq...
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May
¡Los 30 Minutos que Podrían Salvar tu Vida!
La cirugía bariátrica como medida preventiva. La obesidad ha alcanzado proporciones epidémicas en los Estados Unidos, Canadá y México, al igual que en muchos otros países alrededor del mundo. El sector con mayor crecimiento en la poblaci&o...
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May
Ebola and Obesity, is it related?
Are these two epidemics killing us? ObesityThe World Health Organization estimates that more than 1. 5 billion adults worldwide are overweight or obese. Once considered a problem only in high-income countries, overweight and obesity are now dramatically on the rise in low- and midd...
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May
Can I Have Alcohol After Bariatric Surgery?
Weight loss and alcoholPatients after undergoing bariatric surgery have various dietary restrictions and limitations, but one point that is often overlooked is whether patients can or cannot drink alcohol. Alcohol consumption, either in small or big amounts, takes commonplace in t...
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May
¿El Sobrepeso Predispone al Cáncer?
El cáncer y su relación con la obesidadLa Organización Mundial de la Salud estima que mas de 1. 5 millones de adultos en alrededor del mundo tienen sobre peso o son obesos. Lo que una vez se consideraba un problema exclusivo de países de alta econom&iac...
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May
Is Obesity a Cancer Risk?
Cancer and its relation to obesityThe World Health Organization estimates that more than 1. 5 billion adults worldwide are overweight or obese. Once considered a problem only in high-income countries, overweight and obesity are now dramatically on the rise in low- and middle-incom...
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May
After Weight Loss Surgery: Exercise and Nutrition
Weight Loss Surgery and the benefits of ExercisingThe Journal of the American College of Cardiology (2014;64:472-481), report says:A prospective study showed that running for even 5 to 10 minutes a day, once or twice a week, or at slow speed was associated with substantial m...
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May
Safety in Bariatric Surgery
Most people with obesity don't seek surgical help. Although there is a lot of information regarding obesity, which clearly shows the great health benefits that surgical procedures offer for weight reduction or bariatric, most people with this illness don’t request thes...
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May
Obesity and its Comorbidities, Can These Improve With Weight Loss Surgery?
Obesity #1 disease of our timeObesity is one of the leading diseases of our time, the US reports to have nearly 35% of its adult population is obese, and also carries along many other conditions that are related almost directly to obesity. Comorbidities are defined as diseases th...
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