Death Rate Greater After Weight-Loss Surgery

re: Death Rate Greater After Weight-Loss Surgery

PPARGammaGirl — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:26:12 GMT

“About 1 per cent of the patients in the study died within a year of the procedures and 6 per cent died within five years.”

Bit of statistical sleight of hand going on here! Bariatric surgery itself has a 2% mortality rate, and comparing these rates with the ‘general population is inane. The study would have had some value only if it compared mortality of the surgery recipients with other ‘obese’ people who didn’t have the surgery.

re: Death Rate Greater After Weight-Loss Surgery

mmc88121 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:48:40 GMT

Gastric Bypass surgery treats only the symptoms of obesity, it does not treat the reason for the obesity.

Mary

re: Death Rate Greater After Weight-Loss Surgery

samurai — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:56:10 GMT

I was chatting with an ER RN once, and she said that they are seeing tons of ER cases related to gastric bypass surgery.
So why is this surgery still legal?
Because doctors make uber money off of selling hope and faith.

re: Death Rate Greater After Weight-Loss Surgery

Russ Bianchi — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:50:00 GMT

Many forms of surgery trigger much higher DEATH RATES, post operative due to many types of complications including internally bleeding, infection and reactive drug usage protocols...

re: Death Rate Greater After Weight-Loss Surgery

Patty D — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:11:48 GMT

One of the prods to start the sugar free/grain free diet (no, lifestyle NOT diet) I'm doing was being turned down for bariatric surgery. I was about 120 lbs overweight. The doc said I had too many co-morbidities, was too sick, on too many meds etc and that I was too poor a surgical risk. Initially I was devastated because I saw the surgery as a way to get rid of the problems, but now I thank God for a cautious surgeon. I've lost 50 lbs, 20 prescriptions and a lot of "diseases" since May. The more articles like this that I read, the happier I am not to have gone that route.