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Do Gastric Bypass Patients Usually Die 10-15 Years After Surgery? Is This True?

asked 1 year ago by ladytray1 in shildon, UK
Latest answer by Shawn Garber, MD
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i read this somewhere and i am considering having surgery, think it was due to problems in nutritional deficiencies. can you help clarify? thanks.

4 answers to Do Gastric Bypass Patients Usually Die 10-15 Years After Surgery? Is This True?

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Death rate significantly reduced AFTER Bariatric Surgery

The answer is absolutely no. The largest study showing death rate after bariatric surgery was done in Sweden and was published a few years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine. They followed approximately 5,000 patients for 10.9 years and they had a 99.9% follow-up rate. Half of the patients had bariatric surgery and the other half were treated with conventional medical therapies for obesity (diet, exercise and behavior modification). The study showed that the patients who had... more
David Buchin, MD

Long Island Bariatric Surgeon
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Decreased mortality with gastric bypass surgery

Gastric bypass surgery will increase not decrease your life-span.  Morbid obese patients die 12 - 15 years earlier than normal weight persons.  Patient that undergo bariatric surgery decrease their 5 year mortality by up to 89%.  Weight loss surgery is the recommended treatment for patients that suffer from morbid obesity.  it decreases most of the medical problems related to obesity like diabetes and heart disease which results in decreased mortality. more
Shawn Garber, MD

Long Island Bariatric Surgeon

www.stopobesityforlife.com

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Risk of Gastric Bypass operations

Regarding: "Do Gastric Bypass Patients Usually Die 10-15 Years After Surgery? Is This True? i read this somewhere and i am considering having surgery, think it was due to problems in nutritional deficiencies. can you help clarify? thanks." I agree with Dr. Hess. In answering this question you need to be aware of a sample bias. The people who undergo weight reduction operations and especially the various subset of gastric bypass operations are ALREADY at a high risk of... more
Peter A. Aldea, MD

Memphis Plastic Surgeon
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Gastric bypass death

 I am neither a bariatric surgeon nor a proponent of surgical weight loss, but a ten year mortality following this surgery is not the standard.  Unfortunately, some will never lose weight without the assistance of surgery.  There are nutritional deficiencies associated with this surgery, but they can be amended with supplements.  Sometimes the health benefits such as resolution of diabetes and improvement of osteoarthritis outweigh the risks.
Jason R. Hess, MD

San Diego Plastic Surgeon

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