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ROCK HILL, S.C. — As weight‑loss drugs like GLP‑1s surge in popularity, doctors say weight‑loss surgery is becoming safer, simpler, and more effective than ever — and for many patients, it remains the ...

About The Study: This study found a profound decrease in the utilization of metabolic bariatric surgery, with a 34.1% decrease from 2022 to 2024, while glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1) ...

Share on Pinterest The number of people getting bariatric surgery for weight loss has declined, partly due to the rise of GLP-1 medications. KARRASTOCK/Getty Images Until recently, bariatric surgery ...

An analysis of more than 430,000 patients found metabolic and bariatric surgery results in 20 percentage-point greater weight loss than GLP-1 receptor agonist use, according to an article in the April ...

Metabolic and bariatric surgery delivers significantly greater weight loss and higher rates of obesity-related disease remission than glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1s), according to ...

The number of metabolic and bariatric surgery procedures in the United States dropped below 200,000 in 2024 for the first time since 2020, a more than 20% decline from the prior year, according to new ...

People who begin obesity treatment with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1s) and then undergo metabolic and bariatric surgery achieve substantially greater weight loss than with the ...

Bariatric surgery far outperformed GLP-1 weight loss drugs in a new real-world comparison of more than 50,000 patients. Two years after treatment, surgery patients lost about 58 pounds on average, ...

Since late 2022, rising uptake of GLP-1 medications for obesity has coincided with a decline in bariatric surgeries, according to a growing body of research. Researchers at Ohio State University ...