Bariatric surgery reduces the risk of heart attack

[Cowboyjim]

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-03/nyph-bsr033011.php
In the longest study of its kind, bariatric surgery has been shown to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients with diabetes. These results and other groundbreaking research were presented at the 2nd World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes, hosted by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bariatric_surgery

 

[Patch]

Nice find - thanks for sharing. Especially interesting as they mention the Deudenum. I've been reading up on this lately after a steer from another forum member...

 

[Sid Bonkers]

Isnt this just stating the obvious, surely if you have bariatric surgery you will loose weight and if you loose weight you will lessen the risk of heart attack....


Hardly a revelation I would have thought or have I missed something?

 

[Cowboyjim]

Hmm Sid, I thought the same but...

 

[Patch]

C'mon Sid - skinny people have heart attacks too. How many times have you heard of super fit people keeling over?

 

[Sid Bonkers]

Skinny people dont have weight loss surgery Patch it is only offered to morbidly obese people who are at much greater risk of heart failure, surely the whole point of weight loss surgery is to achieve weight loss which in turn will take the strain off a persons heart that obesity causes.

But I'm sure you knew that already :roll: