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Gastric bypass procedures (GBP) are any of a group of similar operations used to treat morbid obesity—the severe accumulation of excess weight as fatty tissue—and the health problems (comorbidities) it causes. Bariatric surgery is the term encompassing all of the surgical treatments for morbid obesity, not just gastric bypasses, which make up only one class of such operations. A gastric bypass... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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    Gastric bypass surgery

    Gastric bypass procedures (GBP) are any of a group of similar operations used to treat morbid obesity—the severe accumulation of excess weight as fatty tissue—and the health problems (comorbidities) it causes.
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    Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

    Bariatric surgery

    Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. ... An emerging factor in the success of gastric bypass surgery is following an established gastric bypass diet after surgery
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    Revision weight loss surgery

    Currently, it is really only suitable for people who have had prior roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery and have a stretched stomach pouch.
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    Diabetes mellitus type 2

    Gastric bypass surgery ... A study of 20-years of Greenville gastric bypass patients found that 80% of those with type 2 diabetes before surgery no longer required insulin or oral agents to maintain normal glucose levels.
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    Duodenal switch

    Because the pyloric valve between the stomach and small intestine is preserved, people who have undergone the DS do not experience the dumping syndrome common with people who've undergone the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery (RNY).
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    Bypass surgery

    Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery
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    Star Jones

    However, in a September 2007 interview in Glamour magazine, she revealed she had gastric bypass surgery in August 2003, resulting in a loss of 160 pounds over three years.
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    Starved

    He continually schedules and then cancels gastric bypass surgery.
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    Renee Williams (person)

    She's waited 12 years for the gastric bypass surgery to help her get back on her feet... but it may just be too late.
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    Adjustable gastric band

    Lower mortality rate: only 1 in 2000 versus 1 in 200 for Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery

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