Obesity
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Malpractice issues tied to bariatric surgery explored
NEW ORLEANS – Poor communication, muffed coverage, and handoff issues are the strongest contributors to medical malpractice claims against...
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Insurance-mandated diet pre–bariatric surgery deemed harmful
NEW ORLEANS – Bariatric surgeons say that insurer-mandated preoperative diet programs are counterproductive and must go.
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Prepregnancy overweight boosts risk of depressive symptoms in pregnancy
NEW ORLEANS
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Unless it is diagnosed, obesity won’t be treated
NEW ORLEANS – Physicians fail to include a diagnosis of obesity in the medical record of roughly half of affected patients.
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Bariatric surgery or total joint replacement: which first?
NEW ORLEANS – Encourage obese patients who need a total hip or knee replacement to undergo bariatric surgery beforehand, not after.
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What referring physicians need to know about bariatric surgery success rates
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VIDEO: NAFLD costing U.S. $290 billion annually
BOSTON - A sophisticated mathematical analysis shows that nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is costing the United States over $290 billion annually...
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VIDEO: Angiogenesis has a role to play in NASH and NAFLD
BOSTON
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Managing stress in children, parents can reduce obesity risk
Stress can play an outsize role in obesity.
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The Liver Meeting 2016 debrief – key abstracts
BOSTON - Amid a plethora of quality research, several abstracts stood out at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver...
Conference Coverage
NAFLD can regress with weight loss, activity
BOSTON – All phenotypes of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease can progress or regress even without pharmacologic intervention, according to a...