Posts Tagged ‘most popular operation’

Post updated November 2020. In 2010 <10% of weight loss operations were sleeve gastrectomy operations. In just three short years, the sleeve went from a distant third place in popularity, significantly behind both the gastric bypass and LAP-BAND®, to first place. It has remained in first place ever since.

The gastric sleeve operation has gone from <10% of weight loss operations performed in the U.S. to the majority of operations performed in just 3-4 years. The rapidity of this increase in gastric sleeve popularity is extraordinary. Let’s look at the data. There are three graphs below from three different sources that demonstrate the rise of…