FEBRUARY 12, 2025

ASPEN Panel Urges Providers to Learn More About Malnutrition Following Bariatric Surgery

Patients who have undergone bariatric surgery may experience malnutrition in the months after their weight loss surgery. To better help these patients devise sustainable and healthier weight loss goals, clinicians should learn how the signs of malnutrition present after bariatric procedures to help patients avoid deficiencies, experts recommended during ASPEN 2024 Malnutrition Awareness Week.

Speaker Neil Floch, MD, the director of bariatric surgery at Greenwich Hospital and an associate