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It has long been known that bariatric weight-loss surgery lowers risk of heart disease in most patients. Most patients of weight loss surgery lose a significant amount of weight as a result of their surgeries. That’s the point, after all. This weight reduction has a direct, positive impact on the patient’s risk of heart disease — by lowering that risk.
Want to follow the history of these developments? Here’s an excerpt from one of the first stories on this topic, published by Standford University:
A 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 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, said the study’s lead author Brandon Williams, MD, a general surgery resident, and senior author John Morton, MD, assistant professor of surgery and director of bariatric surgery at Stanford Hospital.
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