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5 Things You Ought To Think About Before Putting Off Gastric Bypass Surgery
By Robert | June 14, 2009
Obesity surgery is very much a last resort for many patients and something to be put off as long a possible while they consider all of their options. In actual fact, in most cases people are helped in this by their doctor who will often insist on an extended program of diet and exercise before referring a patient for surgery. But is this the correct approach?
Apart from the fact that almost everybody agrees that exercise and diet programs do not work for the vast majority of people, there is excellent evidence to suggest that delaying surgery is putting patient’s lives at risk.
In a recently published study the records of over 2,000 patients who underwent weight loss surgery between 1995 and 2004 in the same medical center were studies. The researchers wished to see if there were any factors which would have predicted the risks faced by this group of patients before they underwent surgery and they found 5 things which they believed increased a patient’s risk of surgery.
The first of the five factors was gender with women being at lower risk than men. The second was a BMI (body mass index) in excess of 50. The third factor was age with people under 45 years of age being at lower risk. The fourth was the presence of high blood pressure (hypertension), often related to cardiovascular disease. The last factor was previous evidence of pulmonary embolus (a blood clot in the lungs) or a predisposition for this condition.
The researchers went on to award a point for the presence of each of these factors and split the study group into those at high, medium and low risk according to their scores. The then examined the death rate for each of these three groups and found that in the low risk group the death rate was 0.31%, in the medium risk group it was 1.9% and in the high risk group it was 7.56%.
Now there is not much you can do about your gender but, when it comes to the remaining factors, the effect as far as the complications of gastric bypass surgery are concerned are obvious. Ageing, continuing to put on weight and developing health problems all increase the risks for surgery. Accordingly, if you are suffering from morbid obesity, you ought to consider early surgery and balance the risks of waiting against the possibility of finding a successful alternative.
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