Bariatric surgery tied to improved cardiometabolic health, lower CVD risk. Another study showing the value of bariatric surgery in risk reduction in at risk patients. ⁦ASMBS⁩ ⁦SAGES Is In Cleveland 2024!⁩ healio.com/news/endocrino…

Read more about the work LA CaTS Center IDeA-CTR Researcher Dr. Vance Albaugh is doing with LSU Health Sciences on a new screening tool for endometrial cancer. 👏 #CTResearchers #Louisianaresearch #cancer #womenshealth #collaboration

'Bariatric surgery outperforms medical management in long-term diabetes control...' To view the full article, visit ow.ly/H7Zi50QOXvp #DiabetesResearch

Dr. Vance Albaugh from Pennington Biomedical Research Center and Dr. Amelia Jernigan from LSU Health Sciences developed a new screening tool to catch endometrial cancer earlier #ScholarshipFirst

Hear about one of the most important obesity studies in history. 30 year follow up of Swedish Obese Subjects Study. March 7 2024 630 pm pbgrandrounds.org Pennington Biomedical Research Center World Obesity The Obesity Society Louisiana Obesity Society ASMBS IFSO Neil Floch MD Vance L. Albaugh, MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS Jaime Ponce MD

#WorldObesityDay ⭕️ here! ❗️

We want to leverage the power of #WOD2024 to start cross-cutting conversations. Looking at health, youth and the world around us to see how we can address obesity together. 🌍

#LetsTalk this March 4th. 🗣️

👉 worldobesityday.org

#WorldObesityDay
#WOD2024
#ObesityAwareness

As Principal Investigator of this multicenter trial, I am so proud of the outstanding team effort that brought together scientists from Pennington Biomedical, Cleveland Clinic, Harvard, Pittsburgh and Seattle to collaborate and contribute to this milestone study. #NIDDK #NIH

Diabetes remission was greater after bariatric surgery (6.2% in the medical/lifestyle group vs 18.2% in the bariatric surgery group at 7 years and at 12 years (0.0% in the medical/lifestyle group vs 12.7% in the bariatric surgery group. mean body mass index was 36.4

Check out this article featuring our own, Dr. Vance Albaugh⭐️🐅 Vance L. Albaugh, MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS wbrz.com/news/penningto…

Researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center have developed a new cancer screening tool to better attack the third fastest-growing cancer in Louisiana over the past five years and the fastest growing cancer among young women in the state.
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Great conference, saw lots of interesting work by colleagues & had awesome interactions with some living legends in the obesity & metabolism field!

LA CaTS was proud to be a part of SSCI: Southern Society for Clinical Investigation Southern Regional Meeting 2024! Special thank you to all of our speakers at the LA CaTS Center IDeA-CTR Symposium & poster presenters. Looking forward to 2025! 📸 #CTResearch #partnership #NOLA NIGMS

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2022 estimated bariatric numbers from ASMBS
• 280,000 cases
• 6.5% increase from 2021
• 40% increase from 2020
• #Sleeve continues to be > common for 10 years = 57%
• #BypassRNY = 22%
• Robotic assisted cases = 30% (increased from 23% in 2021 and only 5.8% in 2015)
• New

Proud of LSU Surgery faculty, residents and medical students for showing up at #ASC2024 in big way with 42 presentations, 39 more than last year’s 3. Moving the needle ⁦⁦LSU Department of Surgery⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁦Assoc4AcademicSurgery⁩ ⁦LCMC Health Academic Affairs⁩ ⁦Jessica Zagory, MD⁩

Diplomates - if you are a bariatric surgeon who is planning to take the 2024 #MBS #FPD exam, submit your application by Feb. 29 - ow.ly/BJh450QvgRv

🚨 New preprint: Greater #patientportal engagement was associated with improved postoperative weight loss in #BariatricSurgery patients. VUMC Surgical Sciences DBMI at Vanderbilt University Kaidi Kang Chao Yan S. Trent Rosenbloom You Chen, PhD, FAMIA Vance L. Albaugh, MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS Simon Vandekar Danxia Yu 俞丹霞

#PatientEngagement

Join US Feb 1 at 630 pm EST . 'Metabolic Adaption after Weight Loss' by Eric Ravussin PhD. pbgrandrounds.org Pennington Biomedical Research Center The Obesity Society NIDDK NIH Obesity Medicine Association NORC ASMBS World Obesity Obesity Canada - Obésité Canada Neil Floch MD Dr. John Kirwan Leanne M. Redman, PhD Vance L. Albaugh, MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS

Why do we love cake and ice cream? My lab's latest paper in Cell Metabolism led by Molly McDougle, PhD identifies separate gut-reward circuits for fat and sugar. Foods combining fat and sugar recruit both reward circuits to increase motivation to overeating. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S15…