Bariatrics

Throughout the year’s obesity has become a major concern in America. As you grow older your weight tends to increase along with it. The evolution of obesity is not well understood and the role of socioeconomic status (SES) contributing with this type of health issue has been documented by many researchers. Socioeconomic status is a measure of an individual’s or a family’s social position and economic well-being that combines three related, but not completely overlapping, variables: years of…

Why Is Lap Band Surgery No Longer Recommended? Even though the gastric banding or (lap band) surgery procedure was extremely popular several years ago, as it stands now, many surgeons no longer recommended this type of surgery due to the long-term complications that are associated with it, as well as the emergence of safer and more effective procedures. In this article, we are going to look at some of the primary reasons why many surgeons no longer recommended the laparoscopic band surgery.…

Barrett’s extensively. The only thing I wanted to do was to stop its progression and promote healing. My primary physician placed me on medication that would minimize the production of stomach acid. I still wanted to do more. I researched Roux-en-Y, a bariatric surgery. I thought if the acid was not able to travel up the esophagus, I would heal. I brought the research to my physician and he referred me to Carolinas Weight Management and Wellness Center. The facility offered two weight program…

It is estimated that approximately 750,000 children with special health care needs (CSHCN) transition from pediatric to adult care in the United States every year. To ease the change, transitional care is utilized to provide support needed through the use of provider, parent and patient education. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the American College of Physicians (ACP), as well as a Healthy People 2020 recommend the use of…

(bls.gov). This rapid increase is due to many factors, but like most of the medical field this increase is due to increases in geriatric patients from the aging population from the baby boomer generation. It is also increasing due to increased bariatric patients and higher cases of obesity and diabetes (explore). Currently there are about 9000 jobs and 3000 more are estimated to open up by 2022 (bls.gov). Many who graduate as O&P practitioners make a career of it. This is due to many reasons,…

Estrogen usage and hormone replacement therapy has been known to increase stone formation by increasing biliary cholesterol saturation. Other predisposing factors would include bile acid malabsorption, obesity, total parenteral nutrition, status post-bariatric surgery, hemolytic anemia, diabetes, increasing age, pregnancy secondary to elevated progesterone, and genetic predisposition (Native Americans and those of Chinese or Japanese descent). Most individuals with gallstones are asymptomatic…

absorption of fat-soluble vitamins (Foxcroft and Milne, 2000), whilst Sibutramine has been linked to hypertension and tachycardia (Finer, 2002). Stepping away from pharmaceuticals solutions, the other treatments available for obesity lie in the form of bariatric surgery, but due to the complications of surgery, and limited resources, this is currently reserved as a last ditch method of lowering a patient 's BMI (Wolfe and Morton,…

In the book “Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It,” published in 2010, the author, Gary Taubes, discusses the observations of Hilda Bruch, a German physician, who arrived in New York City during the depression in 1934 to be astonished by the abundance of obese children especially since the only food one could get was standing in the bread line or at the soup kitchen. So why were children getting fat in a time when food was scarce but outside activity was abundant? Did environmental factors…

Addressing the root cause of obesity an issue which faces Americans today, along with its social and health ramifications. In a recent review it was found that “approximately 4% of US children continue to be categorized as extremely obese, outnumbering the number of children diagnosed with cancer, cystic fibrosis, HIV, and juvenile diabetes combined.” (Perryman & Sidoti 2015) It’s possible that the breakdown of the family can be directly attributed to corpulence in our country and that the cure…

The growing number of obese and overweight individuals is higher today than ever before. The prevalence of obesity has become a worldwide phenomenon and is the one of the leading causes for major metabolic diseases such as diabetes and coronary heart disease. Statistics show that number of Americans that are obese and overweight has nearly doubled in the past decade alone. These trends forecast a continued rise in these numbers unless a conscious effort is made to promote lifestyle changes. With…