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Article: Gastric bypass may curb mortality from disease.(Gastroenterology)(Clinical report)
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- December 15, 2007
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Severely obese individuals who opt to have gastric bypass surgery not only reduce their waistlines, they reduce their long-term total mortality as well, Utah researchers reported.
Rates of death from diabetes, coronary artery disease, and cancer were all significantly lower in 7,925 patients who underwent gastric bypass between 1984 and 2002, Ted D. Adams, Ph.D., and his associates wrote.
Compared with a group of similarly obese control subjects who did not have the surgery, the gastric bypass group had a statistically significant, 40% decrease in adjusted long-term mortality from any cause during the mean follow-up of 7.1 years (37.6 vs. 57.1 ...