No Age Limits For The Weight-Loss Surgery
Weight Loss Surgery Channel, 22nd July 2009
It was believed in the past that weight-loss procedures were not safe for the patients over 65 years of age. The new studies at Baylor University in Dallas show, however, that also older patients can benefit such procedures.
Belief that weight-loss surgeries are only suitable for young people, is wrong. The latest researches presented at the 26th annual meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Batriatic Surgery show that also patients over 65 years of age can benefit from cosmetic weight-loss with no additional risks.
100 obese and overweight patients in the age of 65 to 77 took part in the research. The results were then compared to the ones of younger patients. Al of them had laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery. All of them lost comparable weight after the procedure. Then the after-surgery complications were compared in both groups. It turned out that the complications in the group of patients over 65 years old were almost the same as in the other group
