Obesity Surgery Risks
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Obesity surgery or also known as Bariatric surgery is a variety of procedure done to help obese people with BMI larger than 40 to lose some of their weight. This can be done by removing some portion of the stomach, or reducing the stomach size with an implanted medical device.
Is it dangerous? You are already in danger when you are obese.
Let’s weigh the risk from obesity vs obesity surgery:
Risk from obesity: you can get heart disease, stroke, sleep apnea, type 2 diabetes, breathing problem, arthritis, and cancer. It is estimated that 100.000 people die every year directly caused by obesity. Obese people are twice likely to die first from various cause than normal people.
Risk from surgery: you remove all the risk from obesity above after several years, but… You can get complication from the surgery. Like many other surgery, there is no way to tell what exactly can happen to you. Study show that one out of five people is in need of re-hospitalization due to complication on surgery such as leaks at the surgical site, gastric dumping syndrome, pneumonia, incisional hernia, and infection. Are there risk of mortality? Like any other surgery there will always be a mortality risk. The number of death caused by obesity surgery is as low as 0,2 percent.
Recent news show that obesity surgery won’t help you if you are an old people with obesity. It is said that the organ has been damaged by the obesity for too long that surgery won’t do you any good.
It is said that it is much more harder to do obesity surgery on men than on women. Men’s fat accumulates in the belly, making it trickier for surgeons to get through it to the organs. This resulting in more chance of complication in men than women.
Of course the healthiest way to lose obesity is through healthy life style. Obesity surgery is just a quick fix on the problem, but it contain some risk in it.
posted: 11 July 2
under: Medical information