Overall, the five-year risk of requiring follow-up surgery was 5.6% for those who gained weight or kept their starting weight, 4.4% for those who lost a small to moderate amount of weight, and 3.7% ...

The reduced risk of heart disease and early death outweighed the negatives that can accompany such aggressive treatment, ...

The recent silencing of communications from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by the Trump administration is worrisome.