by Mr Ahmed Hamouda | Aug 23, 2016 | Weight Loss
It has been known that obesity and obesity-related health conditions have a negative impact on life expectancy, more profound on males than females, however affecting both genders generally. This study confirms these findings and estimates the average life expectancy...
by Mr Ahmed Hamouda | Aug 23, 2016 | Weight Loss
Following weight loss surgery, obesity related health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and sleep apnea commonly disappear or improve. This leads to cost savings on the medications required to treat these conditions. Also, increased activity and mobility may...
by Mr Ahmed Hamouda | Aug 23, 2016 | Weight Loss
The UK’s National Obesity Forum has criticised a Welsh health board for insisting that severely overweight patients have to go on weight management courses before undergoing non-urgent surgery, claiming that the policy is expensive and could yield few benefits. It has...
by Mr Ahmed Hamouda | Aug 23, 2016 | Weight Loss
Sleeve gastrectomy was originally a procedure that was performed as the first part of a more complex weight loss operation, or would sometimes be performed if a bypass was difficult to do due to a large overhanging liver. However, evidence collected over the past...
by Mr Ahmed Hamouda | Aug 23, 2016 | Weight Loss
Advances are being made on the technical front with regards to keyhole surgery. Single incision keyhole surgery started a few years ago and was based on the principle of using one large incision through the belly button to accommodate a three channelled port. The...
by Mr Ahmed Hamouda | Aug 23, 2016 | Weight Loss
Someone came to see me last year for weight loss surgery and was found on further investigation to have a severe form of deposition of fat within the liver otherwise known as NASH (non-alcoholic steato-hepatosis). Fat deposition within the liver is very common,...
