Did you know that Bariatric surgery kills 5 percent of patients?!
Question: A new analysis of bariatric surgery patients, published in the journal Nature, reveals that this surgical procedure may be far more dangerous than most people believe. An astonishing 4.6 percent of patients who undergo bariatric surgery are dead within a year. That's almost one out of 20 people who die within a year following the surgery.
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Answers: A new analysis of bariatric surgery patients, published in the journal Nature, reveals that this surgical procedure may be far more dangerous than most people believe. An astonishing 4.6 percent of patients who undergo bariatric surgery are dead within a year. That's almost one out of 20 people who die within a year following the surgery.
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My aunt had her stomach stapled something like 25 years ago. She died a few years back from cacner, but it was not related to the surgery.
Point is, it didnt work. She dropped all the weight in a few months. But she also gained it all back. She died weighing 230 lbs and that was after loosing about 50 with cancer treatment.
Thing is, it takes a LIFESTYLE change to loose weight and keep it off. No surgery, pill, or fad diet is gonna do that. You cant just go in for surgery and not change your entire lifestyle.
Most people also need psychological counseling. Often, the obesity is tied to depression. If the depression didnt cause the weight, almost all obese patients become depressed.
Weight Watchers is psychologically and statistically the most succesful program to go through. Yeah, it takes a few years to get all the weight off, but it comes off in a healthy way. They advocate and promote support groups, counseling, and encouragment. They promote the lifestyle change that is needed to loose it and keep it off healthy
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No I didn't, but I knew it was fairly high. It is a very risky surgery. They do have a less risky (to my knowledge) bariatric surgery called lap band surgery which doesn't get rid of the actual stomach.
Sounds fair to me. If those patients cared for themselves at all, they researched the risks and weighed them against the benefits.
.Whats your point? No surgery is 100% successful.Hundreds die every year from so called "routine" procedures.Blame it on reactions to anesthesia or other drugs used in the operation.
What percentage of patients does morbid obesity kill?
I'm not endorsing the surgery, but your "fact" needs to be put into perspective.
The incidence of reactions to anesthesia, btw, is extremely low. Anesthesia is much safer now than it used to be.