Why Do More Women Than Men Have Weight-Loss Surgery?
According to a recent online article in Health Day News, Why Do More Women Than Men Have Weight-Loss Surgery? a recent study shows that women may possess greater overall awareness of the risks posed by obesity.
It states in the article: For one, women seem to have a greater overall awareness of the risks posed by obesity, and are generally much less satisfied with their health status than men, the researchers found.
In addition, a greater number of women appear to be eligible for surgery than men. Also, men tend to wait until they get older — and presumably sicker — before considering the option, with statistics showing that the gender gap for weight-loss procedures actually narrows as men enter their 70s, the researchers said.”
The obesity rate is evenly split between men and women 50-50 percent, but women get 80% of the bariatric surgeries and men only 20%.
“The results of this study should raise awareness in men about the complications that obesity brings to their health,” senior study author Dr. Santiago Horgan, chief of the division of minimally invasive surgery at the University of California, San Diego, said in a university news release.
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