Impact of gastric bypass surgery: Pros and Cons of surgery

Jul, 2012

Pages1,8,27,28
Mr Shaun Lawrence, 32, and Ms Rozita Ramlee, 36, used to tip the scales at over 100kg.
Meet them today and you probably won’t be able to tell that they used to be obese. That’s because both of them underwent gastric bypass, a form of weight-loss or bariatric surgery effective in reversing diabetes and other metabolic disorders. To help fight their obesity, diabetes and accompanying illnesses, Mr Lawrence and Ms Rozita underwent the operation at Singapore General Hospital (SGH), a member of theSingHealth group, in late 2011.