Metabolic and Bariatric Endoscopy: A Mini-Review.
Benjamin Charles NortonAndrea TeleseApostolis PapaefthymiouNasar AslamJanine Maria MakaronidisCharles MurrayRehan HaidryPublished in: Life (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
We are currently in a worldwide obesity pandemic, which is one of the most significant health problems of the 21st century. As the prevalence of obesity continues to rise, new and innovate treatments are becoming available. Metabolic and bariatric endoscopic procedures are exciting new areas of gastroenterology that have been developed as a direct response to the obesity crisis. These novel interventions offer a potentially reversible, less invasive, safer, and more cost-effective method of tackling obesity compared to traditional bariatric surgery. Minimally invasive endoscopic treatments are not entirely novel, but as technology has rapidly improved, many of the procedures have been proven to be extremely effective for weight loss and metabolic health, based on high-quality clinical trial data. This mini-review examines the existing evidence for the most prominent metabolic and bariatric procedures, followed by a discussion on the future trajectory of this emerging subspecialty.
Keyphrases
- weight loss
- bariatric surgery
- roux en y gastric bypass
- gastric bypass
- public health
- clinical trial
- obese patients
- mental health
- weight gain
- healthcare
- minimally invasive
- glycemic control
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome
- sars cov
- ultrasound guided
- type diabetes
- randomized controlled trial
- high fat diet induced
- health information
- adipose tissue
- body mass index
- social media
- study protocol
- climate change
- open label
- big data
- double blind
- small bowel
- data analysis