Sentence examples for stomach reduction from inspiring English sources

They and a number of relatives have had stomach reduction surgery.

A stomach reduction or stapling may be the surgical solution for you.

Each one of them has had stomach reduction surgery -- Ms. Christensen and her mother only during the past year.

The treatment of gastric volvulus involves decompression of the stomach, reduction of the volvulus, gastropexy, and correction of the underlying cause [1, 25].

But just as joint replacement surgery seems to be the fate of aging professional and amateur athletes, will stomach reduction surgery be the fate of all the others who are so actively participating in the sport of excessive eating?

Acute, intravenous infusion of GLP-1 (in pharmacological doses) slows gastric emptying markedly in both healthy subjects and patients with type 2 diabetes in a dose-dependent manner (40– 42) by mechanisms that include relaxation of the proximal stomach, reduction of antral and duodenal motility, and an increase in pyloric tone (43), and which involve vagal pathways (44).

The newer stomach-reduction procedure, called banding, is considered much safer, although the weight loss is more gradual.

No reliable total is available because the society does not break down its stomach-reduction surgery figures by age.

Arlene Mershell, 46, of Briarcliff Manor, said her stomach-reduction surgery kicked off a trend, reversing a pattern of obesity that had plagued her family for generations.

The American Society for Bariatric Surgery estimates that the number of stomach-reduction operations has jumped from 16,000 in 1993 to more than 100,000 in 2003.

In animals even more complex procedures have been demonstrated, such as fallopian-tube resections, organ-bypass procedures, reconstructive stomach-reduction procedures and even the draining of coronary arteries.