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Study: Obese getting weight-loss surgery live longer
Posted: Jan 23, 2010 10:21 AM by Jamie Smith
A new computer model suggests most morbidly obese adults can extend their life span by undergoing bariatric surgery. Roughly 5 percent of the U.S. population is morbidly obese, meaning they have a BMI of 40 or higher. According to the new model, a 42 year-old woman could gain three years of life after undergoing bypass surgery. A 44 year-old man could gain 2 and-a-half years.
More studies are needed to see how other factors, like diabetes, impact the risk-to-benefit ratio.
The model used data from 400,000 individuals to calculate risk of death from obesity.
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