stomach diseases/obesity

From 1975 to 1989, 97 patients with ulcer diseases and concomitant obesity were operated on at the Tashkent branch of the All-Union Scientific Surgical Centre, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The patients with a gastroduodenal ulcer, II and higher degree of morbid obesity accounted for 2.4% of the

We investigated the effects of age and obesity on the fasting cutaneous electrogastrogram (EGGc) by studying both young and aged, healthy men. All subjects underwent an electrogastrographic recording lasting 1 h, and frequency and power data were obtained by means of spectral analysis. In order to

Combined kidney-pancreas transplantation is the treatment of choice for end-stage diabetic nephropathy. Weight gain post-transplant increases the risk for post-transplant complications and death due to cardiovascular events. Gastric pacemakers have been used for therapy of diabetic gastropathy and

Gastric bypass is considered by many to be the gold standard for surgical treatment of obesity. Gastric bypass was a natural evolution from gastric operations that were used for the treatment of peptic ulcer disease. Gastric bypass, first described in 1967, has undergone many modifications. It

Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) was defined as two or more miscarriages. Antiphospholipid syndrome, uterine anomalies, and parental chromosomal abnormalities, particularly translocation and abnormal embryonic karyotype, are identifiable causes of RPL. Obesity may increase the risk of sporadic

OBJECTIVE Despite the increasing prevalence of obesity and gastric diseases, the impact of obesity on short- and long-term outcomes of laparoscopic distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer still remains unclear. METHODS Sixty-one consecutive obese patients with body mass index (BMI)≥30 kg/m2, who

BACKGROUND Morbid obesity has become a public health epidemic in the United States. With this epidemic, the demand for surgical intervention has led to rapid growth in the field of bariatric surgery. Although various procedures exist, one of the procedures offered at our institution is resectional

OBJECTIVE Diabetic gastropathy is associated with loss of interstitial cells of Cajal and autonomic neuropathy. Effective management for diabetic gastropathy is still unavailable. This study was aimed to confirm the pathogenetic changes in diabetic gastropathy and to examine the effect of treatment

BACKGROUND Obesity is closely related to upper gastrointestinal diseases. China has a high incidence of gastropathy. Postoperative examination of the distal stomach becomes extremely difficult after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery (LRYGB). Whether preoperative routine gastroscopy

Background: Long-term changes in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk after bariatric surgery are not well characterized. Objective: To report sex-specific changes in CVD risk

BACKGROUND Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a common multifactorial genetic syndrome, which is determined by several genes and environmental factors. The aim of the present study was to investigate the presence of risk factors for developing diabetes type 2 among diabetic individuals and to compare the

OBJECTIVE In population surveys, up to 30% of participants reported chronic pain. Reports of chronic pain do not necessarily imply disability associated with pain. We assessed the prevalence of chronic disabling noncancer pain and associated demographic and medical variables in a sample of the

Background: Coronary heart disease (CHD) accounts for one third of all deaths in people older than 35 years in the United States. Objectives: The aim of this study is to

BACKGROUND The cytokine response during the acute phase of Helicobacter pylori infection in humans has not been studied. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate the early cytokine responses against H. pylori using cultured human stomach explants as a model of acute