You’ve Got Weight-Loss Options
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Weight-Loss Options
Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is your partner in health and that includes reaching a healthy weight. In fact, LVHN leads the region in the number of bariatric surgeries performed each year.
Gastric sleeve surgery can lower your risk for vitamin deficiency and reduce your body's production of the appetite-stimulating hormone ghrelin. This laparoscopic surgery removes of about 75% of the stomach, leaving a narrow stomach tube, or “sleeve.” Get more details in our free guide.
In a laparoscopic procedure, your surgeon re-forms your stomach to create a smaller stomach pouch and a section of the small intestine is attached to the pouch. This is the most common type of weight-loss surgery. Get more details in our free guide.
Medically supervised weight loss is a program managed by a team of professionals who specialize in obesity and includes physicians, dietitians, nurses, exercise physiologists and behavioral health specialists.