The Doctor's Guide to Weight Loss Surgery: How to Make the Decision That Could Save Your Life, offers a comprehensive reference guide to weight loss surgery for both the general public and health care providers. This practical, easy-to-understand guide -- the result of a collaboration of a nationally-renowned bariatric surgeon and a former weight loss surgery patient -- is aimed at helping people make an informed decision about this sometimes controversial procedure.Frequently regarded as the last resort for desperately obese people with no self-control, weight loss surgery is often incorrectly thought of as dangerous or ineffective. In reality, research has proven that weight loss surgery is the single most effective treatment for individuals who have the severest form of the disease of obesity. Long term studies on patients who have undergone weight loss surgery show that the majority of patients may attain extensive weight loss. Complications of obesity, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, arthritis, and gastro-esophageal reflux disease improve markedly or disappear completely.
Language
English
Pages
218
Format
Paperback
Release
October 01, 2001
ISBN 13
9780971096806
The Doctor's Guide to Weight Loss Surgery: How to Make the Decision That Could Save Your Life
The Doctor's Guide to Weight Loss Surgery: How to Make the Decision That Could Save Your Life, offers a comprehensive reference guide to weight loss surgery for both the general public and health care providers. This practical, easy-to-understand guide -- the result of a collaboration of a nationally-renowned bariatric surgeon and a former weight loss surgery patient -- is aimed at helping people make an informed decision about this sometimes controversial procedure.Frequently regarded as the last resort for desperately obese people with no self-control, weight loss surgery is often incorrectly thought of as dangerous or ineffective. In reality, research has proven that weight loss surgery is the single most effective treatment for individuals who have the severest form of the disease of obesity. Long term studies on patients who have undergone weight loss surgery show that the majority of patients may attain extensive weight loss. Complications of obesity, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, arthritis, and gastro-esophageal reflux disease improve markedly or disappear completely.