Bariatric surgery has higher short-term risk for VTE but delivers ‘potentially strong’ benefits after a year
At one and five years after surgery, risk for VTE and pulmonary embolism became lower than no surgery.
In the short term, bariatric surgery is associated with greater odds for VTE, but after one and five years, the procedure delivers “potentially strong” long term benefits, a US study shows.
Researchers from the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle evaluated the association between bariatric surgery and long-term VTE risk.
