Bariatric Surgery, when combined with a comprehensive treatment often acts as an effective tool to provide you with long term weight-loss and help you increase your quality of health. Significant weight loss through bariatric surgery paves the way for many other exciting opportunities for you, your family, and most importantly – your health. Bariatric surgeries result in long-term weight-loss success. Most studies demonstrate that more than 90 percent of individuals previously affected by severe obesity are successful in maintaining 50 percent or more of their excess weight loss following bariatric surgery. Several large population studies find that individuals affected by severe obesity who have had bariatric surgery have a lower risk of death than individuals affected by obesity who do not have surgery. These studies also found up to an 89 percent greater reduction in mortality throughout a 5-year observation period for individuals who had bariatric surgery when compared to those who did not.
The exceptionally high reduction in mortality rates with bariatric surgery are due to the highly significant improvement in those diseases that are caused or worsened by obesity. Frequently, individuals who improve their weight find themselves taking less and less medications to treat their obesity-related conditions. Bariatric surgeries lead to improvement and remission of. Bariatric surgery improves, or even resolves (cures), obesity-related co-morbidities for the majority of patients. These co-morbidities include Type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM), Blood pressure, Sleep apnea, Asthma, Polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD), Infertility, Arthritis, Lipid (cholesterol) abnormalities, Gastro-esophageal reflux disease, Fatty liver disease, Venous stasis, Urinary stress incontinence, and more.
In addition to improvements in health and longevity, surgical weight-loss improves overall quality of life. Measures of quality of life that are positively affected by bariatric surgery include physical functions such as mobility, self-esteem, work, social interactions, and sexual function. Singlehood is significantly reduced, as is unemployment and disability. Furthermore, depression and anxiety are significantly reduced following bariatric surgery.