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Bariatric Surgery
Weight-loss surgery results in even higher drop in heart disease risk
August 11th, 2005
A Stanford University School of Medicine study using new measures of heart disease risk shows that gastric bypass surgery reduces the risk of heart disease even more than previously believed. The researchers say the finding underscores the value of the surgery for extremely overweight people, whose obesity puts them in danger of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular illness. The researchers measured biochemical cardiovascular risk factors in 371 patients before surgery and again 12 months after gastric bypass surgery, adding 3 new tests to the standard panel of cholesterol and triglyceride assays. They saw improvements in all cardiac risk...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-08-11)
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