Tag: bariatric surgery

Vitamin D status a factor in bariatric surgery results

Low levels of vitamin D have long been identified as an unwanted hallmark of weight loss surgery, but now findings of a new Johns Hopkins study of more than 930,000 (more…)

Bariatric surgical center accreditation linked to improved rates of patient survival

Patients who underwent weight loss operations in recent years, when most bariatric surgical centres were accredited, had fewer postoperative complications and were 2.3 times less likely to die in the (more…)