Obesity and Ethnicity
The obesity crisis that Australia is facing isn’t an isolated incident. For years America has reported on their population’s expanding waistlines, as have other countries around the world. But is this a western problem? Is it isolated to a particular race, as we can...
Bariatric Surgery Leading Contributor
The Bariatric Surgery Registry (BSR) measures outcomes for patients who have undergone bariatric surgery across public and private hospitals in Australia. It is predominantly a health and safety registry. This registry is an important step in monitoring and...
Australia’s Obesity Gap – Suburban versus Regional
We already know that Australia is facing an obesity epidemic; it has been widely documented in research, in the press and by medical professionals. In 2014-15 an estimated 11.2 million Australian adults were overweight or obese. The problem is more prevalent in males...
Inequalities of Weight Loss Surgery
Following on from World Obesity Day, a day that was created last year by the Obesity Prevention, Policy and Management Group to raise awareness of this global epidemic, we are continuing to explore reasons why obesity rates have risen so high and continue to do so in...
Dr Georgia Rigas In The Press – World Obesity Day Review
World Obesity Day at Upper GI Surgery World Obesity Day 2016 was a big success globally, raising a lot of awareness around the topic and gaining a lot of media coverage. One of our own doctors, Dr Georgia Rigas, gained a lot of publicity for this topic here in...
World Obesity Day 2016
You may not have heard of World Obesity Day as it was only introduced by the World Obesity Federation in 2015. The World Obesity Federation represents professional members of the scientific, medical and research communities from over 50 regional and national...