Posts Tagged ‘MACE’

Gastric Bypass vs Sleeve: Better Protection from Heart Attacks?

May 9, 2025 — A new study in JAMA Surgery adds to the impression that long-term outcomes are better with gastric bypass surgery when compared to gastric sleeve procedures for treating obesity. Specifically researchers found that people who have gastric bypass surgery are better than one third less likely to have heart attacks than those who have a gastric […]

Plastic Ensemble, assemblage by Giacomo Balla / WikiArt

Nailing Down the Health Effects of Microplastics in Our Brains

April 10, 2025 — It’s a fact. We are eating, drinking, and breathing microplastics. They are accumulating in our bodies – even in our brains. It took painstaking work to figure that out, but even more challenging is the task of nailing down the health effects of all those microplastics. Researchers are doing their best to figure this out. […]