LINKS TO INFORMATION ON WLS

Lap Band Gains Acceptance
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2004/08/02/focus7.html

NIH study =
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=14752627&itool=iconabstr

Why Band not Mainstream
http://www.spotlighthealth.com/nasp/beyond_change/moarticle.asp?article_id=78

Sweet eating is not a predictor of outcome after Lap-Band placement. Can we finally bury the myth?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12568183&dopt=Abstract

Study of 3,319 Lap Bands, 1 failure to lose, 1 death
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15072665

Alcohol good for obesity
http://www.obesityresearch.org/cgi/content/abstract/10/4/245

Alcohol and the band
http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Daily/News/0,1145,1805,00.html

Mortality 1 in 50 for Bypass
http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/23dfca.htm

Mortality 1 in 66 for RNY - Tooter - Need to register - Most important paragraph included below
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/451082_2

Mortality and Leak and Predictors of Postoperative Complications
One of the major and most common complications after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is an anastomotic leak from the gastrojejunal anastomosis, which is often a source of mortality in these patients. Investigators from the Medical College of Virginia, a center with extensive experience with these operations, reported on factors that predicted mortality and leak.^[1] This study of over 3000 open and laparoscopic gastric bypass procedures reported a 1.5% mortality and 3% leak rate. Stratifying their patients by the various approaches used, they detected similar mortality rates for open primary bypass operations (1.5%) and for revision of previous gastric procedures (2.7%), although mortality was very low after a laparoscopic gastric bypass (0.2%). There was no difference in leak rates between primary open procedures (2.2%) and laparoscopic procedures (3.8%), but there was a higher rate of leak in patients undergoing revised procedures (6.8%). Other predictors of leak and mortality included older age, male sex, higher body mass index (BMI), and the presence of diabetes mellitus and/or sleep apnea.

Recent studies NIH
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14691703&dopt=Abstract

Brigham & Women�s
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/US/stomach_stapler_031106.html

Mortality 5% with high BMI
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12448385&dopt=Abstract

Mayo Clinic - Nerve Damage
http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2004-rst/2469.html

Mass Dept Public Health - VBG outdated
http://www.mass.gov/dph/betsylehman/patients_primer_04.htm

MSNBC Obesity Article
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6795525/site/newsweek/