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Article: Statistical analysis reveals gastric bypass may increase life expectancy by 3 years.
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- Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week
- Article date:
- November 10, 2002
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2002 NOV 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Roxanna Guilford, senior medical writer - Gastric surgery may add years to a patient's life, according to research presented at the Owen H. Wangersteen Surgical Forum 2002 at the 2002 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco.
While long-term data from prospective trials are needed to confirm their findings, researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, using statistical analysis, found that gastric bypass surgery may increase life expectancy by 3 years or more.
The researchers constructed a Markov decision analysis model to simulate life expectancy in morbidly ...