New Data Shows Bariatric Surgery to be More Effective and Safer
In a recent online article from The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) – Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Even More Effective than Previously Reported and Getting Safer, new data shows bariatric surgery to be more effective and safer.
A new meta-analysis of studies carried out between 2003 and 2012 shows higher remission rates of diabetes and high blood pressure and a lower mortality rate than previously reported. The study, published online in JAMA Surgery, is an update to a meta-analysis of studies conducted between 1990 and 2003 and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA, Buchwald et. al.) back in October 2004.
“With the 2004 study, we now have 22 years worth of data from over 180,000 patients and 300 studies,” said study co-author J. Esteban Varela, MD, MPH, MBA, Fellow of the ASMBS. “The data continues to prove bariatric surgery is not only safe and effective in providing significant and sustainable weight loss, but is the most effective treatment today for diabetes, hypertension and an array of other diseases and conditions in people with obesity.”
“This is but the latest study to validate the high degree of safety and effectiveness of bariatric surgery,” said Ninh T. Nguyen, MD, FACS, President of the ASMBS and Vice-Chair of the Department of Surgery at UC Irvine School of Medicine. “Today we are performing operations that are as safe or safer than gallbladder and hernia repair surgery.”
To read the full article via ASMBS click here.