Obesity surgery, such as gastric band surgery, has a life-extending effect

Bariatric surgery is a highly advanced bariatric surgery performed laparoscopically without abdominal incision. This operation is known as an extreme treatment for severe obesity.

However, research has shown that bariatric surgery has a life-extending effect.

Severely obese adults who underwent Beatrix surgery had a lower risk of death from heart disease, cancer, and diabetes than the control group without surgery.

According to a report by HealthDay News on the 27th, a research team led by Professor Ted Adams of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology at the University of Utah Medical School compared and analyzed severely obese adults who underwent Beriatrix surgery and a highly obese control group that did not undergo this surgery. The same fact was revealed.

Bariatric surgery is mainly performed by ‘gastric band surgery’, which reduces food intake by reducing the stomach, and ‘gastric bypass surgery’, which restricts food absorption by shortening the small intestine. This surgery is known as a way to quickly recover from health problems caused by obesity, such as diabetes and high blood pressure.

The research team selected 21,837 severely obese adults who underwent bariatric surgery from the Utah Population database and a control group of 21,837 severely obese who did not undergo bariatric surgery by matching various conditions such as age, gender, and weight with them. Data were compared and analyzed.

The bariatric surgery group underwent one of four bariatric surgeries: ‘Ruwai gastric bypass’, ‘gastric sleeve resection’, ‘adjustable gastric band surgery’, and ‘biliary pancreas bypass’.

The research team conducted a study using a statistical technique called ‘Cox regression’ by stratifying the predictive model of data such as age at the time of surgery, gender, and type of surgery.

The bariatric surgery group was followed up to 40 years after surgery.

As a result, the risk of all-cause mortality in both men and women in the bariatric surgery group was 16% lower than that in the obese control group who did not undergo bariatric surgery. In addition, the risk of heart disease was 29%, the risk of cancer death was 43%, and the risk of diabetes was 72% lower than the control group.

However, there were also negative aspects to note. The bariatric surgery group had an 83% higher mortality rate from ‘chronic liver disease’ than the control group.

The reason, the research team speculated, was that a change in the mechanism by which alcohol was absorbed in the body appeared after significant weight loss after bariatric surgery.

Also, the risk of suicide in the bariatric surgery group was 2.4 times higher than in the control group. The risk of suicide was predominantly pronounced in the 18-34 age group.

The research team did not look at data on behavioral problems or substance abuse prior to surgery.

Therefore, the research team emphasized that the younger age group needs to check whether there are any mental health problems before undergoing bariatric surgery and follow-up after surgery.

Although the study did not assess the quality of life of the participants, the research team argued that fewer diseases can be interpreted as a corresponding improvement in the quality of health, and that improved quality of health can be interpreted as an improvement in the quality of life.

The findings were published in the latest issue of Obesity, a journal of the American Obesity Society.

Lee Seung-gu Online News Reporter [email protected]

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