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SwallowABalloonToControl Hunger And Lose Weight, Say Experts
By Ian Johnston
People who are over- weight or obese could reduce their weight by swallowing a balloon to fill up their stom- achs and help control hunger cravings.
At a presentation at the Digestive Disease Week conference, the world’s largest gather- ing of experts in the field, researchers reported that the sys- tem had helped a group of volunteers lose twice the amount of weight as others who were on a weight-reduc- tion programme based on diet and lifestyle.
Controlling the hunger impulse is seen as key to helping people to lose weight and some under- gone an operation to reduce the size of the stomach in order to feel full after eating less food.
The study suggests that surgery may not be nec- essary to achieve this.
Lead researcher Dr Shelby Sullivan, director of bariatric endoscopy at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, said: “Our research shows that the studied balloon system can help patients lose almost twice as much weight compared with lifestyle changes alone. “This is important because weight loss is very difficult and a signif- icant number of people are not successful in achieving their weight loss goals with diet
changes and exercise.
Nearly 400 people from around the US with a body-mass index of between 30 and 40 took part in the study.
They were asked to swallow three capsules – one a week -- that each contained an 'Obalon' balloon. These were then filled with a nitro- gen-based gas through a small tube. A control group were given sugar capsules, which the researchers then pre- tended to fill with gas.
The average weight loss of the balloon group was 6.81 per cent, while the con- trol group lost 3.59 per cent.
Of those given the balloon, 64 per cent lost at least five per cent of their body weight, compared to 32 per cent of the control group.
“While patients in our
study who used this balloon system had a nearly 7 per cent total body weight loss, I believe that, once this system is used in the ‘real world’, patients will experience more than that,” Dr Sullivan said.
“This projection is based on the fact that we've seen other weight-loss interventions help people lose more weight than what occurred in clinical trials for those treat- ments.”
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