Archive for April, 2010

Overweighted people breathe easier after weight-loss surgery

Patients who’ve lost weight after bariatric surgery breathe easier and take 50 percent fewer prescription breathing medications, a new study finds.
Researchers reviewed the medical records of 320 patients for one year before and after they had bariatric surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. The patients filled a total of 324 prescriptions for breathing medications [...]