The Ellipse gastric balloon. Fat shaming microaggression in pill form

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A gastric balloon that’s swallowed like a pill and then sits in the stomach filled with fluid helped patients lose more than one-third of their excess weight over four months, researchers reported.

The Elipse device has not been approved for weight loss by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). But it is one of a new generation of “gastric balloons” aimed at helping the overweight and obese lose weight and improve related health problems without undergoing an invasive and largely permanent replumbing of the digestive system.

In July, the FDA approved the “Reshape Dual Balloon” system, which is put in place during a 30-minute procedure during which a patient is mildly sedated.

The Elipse device, which is expected to come before the FDA for consideration soon, differs from the Reshape Dual Balloon in that it is swallowed rather than implanted into the stomach in an endoscopic procedure.

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