Innovation and Change: Gastric Bypass
By:Karibe Partee
Senior Indiviaual Website

Gastric Bypass

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Gastric Bypass surgery was invited to help severely obese people by taking a part of the stomach and allowing the food to bypass the small intestine. This helps you feel full faster. Gastric Bypass has been around for forty years and there has been some complications along the way to get to where we have come today. For example patients who received  the surgery in the past forty years have had some complications such as acid reflex and stomach was susceptible to bile. Now patient who receive the surgery have a stomach no bigger than the size of a hard boiled egg. Patients who have had the surgery said that there risk of having type two diabetes, heart attacks and heart failure have gone down. Gastric Bypass has changed medicine  in many ways allowing overweight people to get the surgery they need to maintain a healthy lifestyle. It has been  innovative because it was a new medical procedure to help  many overweight people lose weight and keep the weight off longer than diet and excessive alone.