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Wednesday, August 22, 2007Severely obese people who have weight-loss surgery are less likely to die from heart disease, diabetes and cancer seven to 10 years following the procedure than similarly heavy people who don't have the operation, according to two studies in today's New England Journal of Medicine. The study did, however, show a higher rate of death from accidents and suicide in gastric bypass surgery patients. The difference in overall deaths wasn't that dramatic when all causes of death were lumped together - 3% of the surgery patients died during the time frame of the study compared to 4% of the control patients. In a another study in the same issue, the death rate among bariatric surgery patients for all causes was 43 out of 2,010 or 2.1%, while that for the controls (obese people who didn't have surgery) was 53 out of 2,037 or 2.6%. Weight loss surgery accelerates weight loss, improves blood pressure and diabetes control, but as a life extension measure, it isn't all it's cracked up to be. posted by Sydney on 8/22/2007 10:08:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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