Tag: obesity
Bariatric embolization: What we know so far
Obesity has been steadily increasing worldwide for at least 50 years. It directly contributes to the rising incidence of cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, and oncological diseases....
Severe obesity linked to lower AVF maturation rates
Researchers behind a new study published in the Annals of Vascular Surgery, among them lead author Laura Anderson and corresponding author Benjamin Brooke (both...
Study lists top sociodemographic factors associated with COVID-19
Older age, being male, deprivation, living in a densely populated area, ethnicity, obesity, and chronic kidney disease are associated with a positive test for...
Call for prospective RCTs on left gastric artery embolization at GEST...
Clifford Weiss (Division of Interventional Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA) called for a prospective randomised controlled trial to investigate potential...
Gastric embolization unfit as standalone obesity treatment
Determining the potential role of interventional radiologists in obesity treatment is increasingly important, as the global number of obese patients has long since swollen...
Cryovagotomy may help ignite weight loss
Cryoablation of the posterior vagal trunk, the nerve carrying hunger signals to the brain, may help patients with mild-to-moderate obesity lose weight, according to...
New study uses cryoablation to target vagus nerve and obesity
A new study is underway at Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, USA, to evaluate the use of cryoablation to treat mild to moderate obesity.
The clinical trial,...
Bariatric embolization: Promising results for GET LEAN study at six months
by Sumeet Patel, Azim Shaikh and Mubin Syed
The GET LEAN (Gastric artery embolization trial for the lessening of appetite nonsurgically) study shows promising six-month preliminary data...
