All Articles on Weight

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  Diabetes is more common among minorities at lower weights

  At normal weight, Pacific Islanders are 3 times likelier than whites to have diabetes, Kaiser Permanente research finds
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  Weight-loss surgery linked to fewer heart attacks and deaths

  Death and heart complications were 40 percent less common in people with obesity and diabetes when they had bariatric surgery
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  Phentermine for weight loss seems safe, effective longer term

  Dr. David Arterburn explains reassuring findings about the nation's most widely used anti-obesity drug.
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  Gastric bypass surgery is best for weight loss for severe obesity

  Largest long-term national study of bariatric surgery, comparing 3 most common operations, is among first PCORnet® results
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  Fewer heart attacks, strokes, and deaths after weight-loss surgery

  Obese people with diabetes had fewer deaths in 5 years after bariatric surgery vs. usual care, in large, long-term study
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  Weight-loss surgery linked to fewer diabetes complications

  Large, long-term study finds half as much nerve, kidney, and eye disease after bariatric surgery than with usual care.
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  Bariatric surgery keeps weight off in long term

  Weight loss persisted for 10 years with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in Dr. Arterburn’s large multisite study of veterans.