Weight-Loss Surgery
can Improve Lives of Aged Obese
Sep 21, 2005
Recent research suggests that senior population can benefit from weight-loss surgery as much as younger people and maybe more. One study, from Columbia University's Center for Obesity Surgery in New York, found that patients over 60 got the same benefits from the surgery and had a comparable rate of postoperative complications as younger people.
A soon-to-be published study of 27 gastric-bypass patients 65 and older who had surgery at the University of South Florida and the University of Miami also showed that the procedure produced good results and improved quality of life with about the same rate of mortality and complications as seniors who have heart-bypass and hip-replacement surgery. That shows a mortality rate of about 2 percent to 4 percent, double the death rate for younger gastric-bypass patients.
The surgery corrects diabetes, hypertension, it takes away the sleep apnea, it fixes the heartburn reflux and it makes their knees and joints last longer.
Source: http://www.journalnow.com
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