Gastric Bypass and
LAP-BAND Surgeries Benefit Heart - Weight Loss Procedures Reduce Heart
Disease Attacks - Possibly Diabetes as Well
July 1st 2006
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Researchers say that the new weight loss surgery cuts the risk of heart
disease in half in extremely obese patients. These patients are also
less likely to require bypass surgery to unclog blocked arteries,
compared to those that did not have the surgery.
Extremely obese means having a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or higher.
BMI is calculated by dividing a person's weight (in kilograms) by his or
her height (in meters, squared). The extremely (or morbidly) obese
individual is also more likely to suffer from type 2 diabetes and high
blood pressure than their normal weight counterparts.
Nicolas V. Christou MD, PhD said “No other treatment has been shown to
have this much impact on preventing or reducing heart disease in
patients with morbid obesity.” Nicolas is a doctor at the McGill
University Health Center in Montreal.
The research was released this week at the annual meeting of the
American Society for Bariatric Surgery in San Francisco. They compared
heart risk and related complications between 1986 and 2002 among a group
of 1,035 morbidly obese patients who had weight loss surgery with more
than 5,700 who did not have the surgery.
The results showed that the weight loss surgery patients were 5 times
less likely to experience an irregular heartbeat that may lead to
cardiac arrest or death. They also had a reduced risk of other
heart-related problems, such as fluid in the lungs, which can lead to
respiratory failure by more than half. They required less than half the
number of heart surgeries, such as coronary bypass procedures and
angioplasty. They also experienced half the rate of severe heart pain
(i.e. angina) caused by inadequate blood flow to the heart.
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