Weight-loss surgery DOES save lives, lowering rates of heart disease and cancer
- Obese patients who have weight-loss surgery are more likely to live longer
- Being obese increases risk of death from various disease, including cancer
- Gastric bypass decreases risk of death by 57% compared with not having it
- Difference seen in lower number of deaths from heart disease and cancer
Lizzie Parry For Dailymail.com
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Obese patients who undergo weight-loss surgery are less likely to die in the following five years, a new study has revealed
Obese patients who undergo weight-loss surgery are less likely to die in the following five years, a new study has revealed.
Being obese or overweight increases a person’s risk of death from numerous diseases, including heart attack, stroke and a number of cancers.
Scientific evidence has shown surgery can prevent obesity-related mortality and morbidity.
However, there is a lack of population-based prospective studies examining overall mortality in patients who undergo gastric bypass.
Researchers led by Dr Christina Persson, from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, set out to assess the overall mortality in obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery, compared with their peers who did not have the operation.
Their study of almost 49,000 obese patients shows those who do not go under the knife are more likely to die.
Researchers used the Swedish Patient registry – a person-based register of all hospitalisations and hospital-based outpatients’ visits in Sweden.
They created a cohort including all patients with a principal diagnosis of obesity – meaning this was the main cause of their hospital visit – in Sweden from 2000 to 2011.
The study population included 48,693 patients aged 18 to 74 years old.
Of those, 22,581 patients underwent bariatric surgery – 92.8 per cent of whom had a gastric bypass.
The remaining 26,112 obese patients did not have surgery.
Researchers discovered the mortality rate was higher in the non-surgical group (4.21 per cent) compared to the surgical group (1.1 per cent) – or the equivalent of 7.7 versus 2.1 deaths per 1,000 people each year.
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The average time to follow up for the surgical group was 5.4 years, and 5.5 years for those who did not have surgery.
Overall mortality decreased by 57 per cent in the surgery group, compared to the non-surgical group.
This 57 per cent reduction was the same when adjusting for age alone or age and previous co-morbidity and other factors, including sex, coronary heart disease, valvular disease, cancer, hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, stroke and atrial fibrillation.
Overall mortality decreased by 57 per cent in the surgery group, compared to the non-surgical group
The most common cause of death in the non-surgical group was cardiovascular disease, followed by cancer.
In the surgical obese patients, the most common cause of death was external causes of mortality (such as accidents and suicide), followed by cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Although accidents and suicide were the main causes of death in the surgical group, the incidence of death from these causes was still lower than in the non-surgical group.
The authors conclude: ‘This population-based cohort observational study indicates that the overall all-cause mortality is considerably lower among obese individuals who undergo bariatric surgery compared to non-surgical obese individuals, and the differences lies mainly in cardiovascular disease and cancer.’
The findings were presented at this year’s European Obesity Summit.
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