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Article: Researchers say gastric bypass surgery boosts life expectancy.
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- Medical Device Daily
- Article date:
- October 9, 2002
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American College of Surgeons
Researchers say gastric bypass surgery boosts life expectancy
A Medical Device Daily Staff Report
Gastric bypass surgery not only can help patients take excess weight off and keep it off, but it may also increase life expectancy by three years or more.
Researchers from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, New Hampshire) reported Monday during the annual clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons (Chicago, Illinois) in San Francisco, California, on their statistical analysis of a wide variety of epidemiological and surgical studies. They found that on average, a 40-year-old woman with a ...