Bariatric surgery ‘adds an average three years’ to lifespan
But patients having the surgery still die earlier than people of normal BMI, researchers note
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Patients with obesity who have bariatric surgery can expect to live three years longer on average than if they continue with standard treatments, a long-term study shows.
Swedish researchers compared 2000 people who underwent bariatric surgery between 1987 and 2001 with a similar number of matched controls who had conventional obesity treatment.