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Healthy weight loss with our obesity experts

More and more people suffer from obesity. The consequences of this are overweight and pathologically high body fat percentage. Overweight leads to increased risk of developing different chronic diseases. Our specialists have many years of experience in surgical treatment of obesity, which is confirmed by the inclusion of Helios in the lists of the best clinics for patients with obesity in Germany according to Focus magazine for several consecutive years.

In case of obesity or pathological overweight, we will guide you on your way to health. As a certified competence center for bariatric surgery, we specialize in surgical therapy as a long-term effective method of weight loss - all within the framework of individual therapy.

Bariatrics, Obesity & Metabolic Surgery

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World Lipedema Day: More attention for an often underestimated disease

World Lipedema Day: More attention for an often underestimated disease

Many women suffer for years from pain, swelling, and the feeling that their body does not match their lifestyle — often without knowing that a chronic disease is behind it. On the occasion of World Li…
Interview: Bariatric surgery is not only about weight loss

Interview: Bariatric surgery is not only about weight loss

Dr.med. Oliver Stumpf, the Chief Physician of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Department at Helios Berlin-Buch, tells about wide-spreading obesity problem and about bariatric surgery as the most effec…
Sleeve gastrectomy

Sleeve gastrectomy

Approximately 70 percent of all obesity interventions are tubular stomach operations, i.e. sleeve gastrectomies. This is because patients cope well with the operation and the risks are low.
The first step to a new life

The first step to a new life

Adiposity, i.e. pathological overweight, and its consequences diabetes and high blood pressure are chronic diseases. Medical treatment is extremely important. The first step is actually three: change…
Adiposity - What is it?

Adiposity - What is it?

The causes of morbid obesity are very complex and must be considered as "multifactorial". This means that not only the wrong dietary habits and lack of physical exercise are responsible for obesity, b…
Bariatric surgery: Selection criteria, application, aftercare

Bariatric surgery: Selection criteria, application, aftercare

Before deciding to undergo surgery, all conservative, i.e. non-surgical, therapies should be used. Our patient program ObesityVital can also help you with this. When is an operation approved?
Berlin-Buch: A patient’s story – when willpower moves mountains

Berlin-Buch: A patient’s story – when willpower moves mountains

At some point André Sankowski had enough of his overweight. Lethargic, depressed, dissatisfied: he no longer wanted to live like this. In 2014, he decided to undergo gastric bypass surgery - and began…
Types of bariatric surgery at Helios Hospitals

Types of bariatric surgery at Helios Hospitals

Unfortunately, in many cases a conservative therapy isn’t successful. The interdisciplinary team at the Helios Center for Obesity and Metabolic Health helps patients to reduce weight with a long term…

Adiposity Centers at Helios

Berlin

Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch


Helios Berlin-Buch belongs to the clinics with the highest level of provided services — all existing areas of medicine are represented here. The hospital has more than 70 departments with a…

Krefeld

Helios Hospital Krefeld


Helios Hospital Krefeld is an academic tertiary care hospital affiliated with RWTH Aachen University. Each year, the hospital treats more than 60,000 inpatients and 80,000 outpatients. In ad…

Wuppertal

Helios University Hospital Wuppertal


At the Helios University Hospital Wuppertal — University of Witten/Herdecke - more than 2.500 employees attend to more than 50.000 patients per year delivering state-of-the-art inpatient, am…

Stralsund

Helios Hanseatic Hospital Stralsund


The Helios Hanseatic Hospital Stralsund is a specialist care facility with 19 specialist departments. Over 50,000 outpatients and inpatients are treated each year. The hospital has a total o…

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