And, they did, just not to the extent they anticipated. Sleep Loss Tied to Changes in Gut Bacteria. Video: Cancer Takes a Toll on a Small Town. Using electric impulses to block the vagus nerve, which runs between the brain and stomach, researchers hoped to suppress feelings of hunger. Variation Database of Genomic Structural Variation (dbVar) Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) Database of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (dbSNP) SNP Submission Tool All Variation Resources. However, the margin of weight loss was only 8. Charles Billington, an endocrinologist and weight management specialist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Colon Cancer on the Rise Among Young Adults. 5 percent in favor of the device compared to the sham procedure. 2, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- A device intended to help with weight loss by blocking a certain nerve linked to appetite and metabolism failed to meet expectations in a trial among obese patients. Periodically, the device delivers electric impulses that block nerve impulses leaving patients with less of an appetite and feeling fuller, the researchers say. TUESDAY, Sept. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of intermittent, reversible vagal nerve blockade therapy for obesity treatment. Literature Bookshelf E-Utilities Journals in NCBI Databases MeSH Database NCBI Handbook NCBI Help Manual NCBI News PubMed PubMed Central (PMC) PubMed Clinical Queries PubMed Health All Literature Resources. The difference in overall body weight lost was 3 percent between the device group and the sham device group, according to the study. Proteins BioSystems BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) BLAST (Stand-alone) BLAST Link (BLink) Conserved Domain Database (CDD) Conserved Domain Search Service (CD Search) E-Utilities ProSplign Protein Clusters Protein Database Reference Sequence (RefSeq) All Proteins Resources.
3 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Sequence Analysis BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) BLAST (Stand-alone) BLAST Link (BLink) Conserved Domain Search Service (CD Search) Genome ProtMap Genome Workbench Influenza Virus Primer-BLAST ProSplign Splign All Sequence Analysis Resources. The report was published Sept. Abstract IMPORTANCE: Although conventional bariatric surgery results in weight loss, it does so with potential short-term and long-term morbidity. Nerve Blocking Falls Short in Weight Loss Study. Asprin: The Wonder Drug in Your Medicine Cabinet. Homology BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) BLAST (Stand-alone) BLAST Link (BLink) Conserved Domain Database (CDD) Conserved Domain Search Service (CD Search) Genome ProtMap HomoloGene Protein Clusters All Homology Resources. Taxonomy Taxonomy Taxonomy Browser Taxonomy Common Tree All Taxonomy Resources. This article is from the WebMD News Archive. Modest reduction not significantly better than diet drugs or other surgeries. Moreover, fewer people using the device lost significant amounts of weight (20 or 25 percent of their excess weight) than the researchers expected. Add to Clipboard Add to Collections Order articles Add to My Bibliography Generate a file for use with external citation management software. Patients with the real device lost about 24 percent of their excess weight, compared with 16 percent among those with the sham device, the researchers found. The NCBI web site requires JavaScript to function. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: A randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled clinical trial involving 239 participants who had a body mass index of 40 to 45 or 35 to 40 and 1 or more obesity-related condition was conducted at 10 sites in the United States and Australia between May and December 2011. To find the most current information, please enter your topic of interest into our search box.
