What is the Life expectancy after a Gastric Bypass?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862372/ are there any further results?

Who online is the longest living? I am 7 years out as of the end of July! I have lost over 200 pounds and struggle to keep it on or stablize.... But over All outside of poverty... OKAY.....

Please contact me on your results.....

Recently a woman who had her surgery 28 years ago this August posted. She is the longest I have seen personally.

What do you mean 'But over All outside of poverty'?

But over all, outside of being poor, life is ok.....good.....outside of poverty allows ok.

You're saying the longest lenght of a person living after  Weight Loss surgery is only 28 yrs ??  That's crazy .  I'd like to see more research on this.  I'll bet a lot has to do with taking your vitamins . Keeping your body nourished. 

She just meant 28 years out is the longest she has been made aware of.  The longest a person posted here.  I think this surgery has been around 40+ years.  Don't quote me on that but it has been around a long time.  My friends wife had hers 25 years ago and is doing fine.  Someone also posted a while,back that a family member worked in an assisted living center and some of the healthiest oldsters were bariatric folks. They were thinner, healthier and taking many vitamins.  Good,question though.

No, I am saying I only personally am aware of this one woman. She is doing great and going strong, per her post. But let's face it, this surgery was not around 60 years ago, so you aren't going to find someone 60 years out.

I recently took care of a patient that was 79 years old. She told me she had her stomach stapled in 1975 and she had maintained her weight and had few health problems.

Wow! That's inspiring!

I didn't read the study you posted, but read a couple of studies before I had my surgery six years ago. One of them was, IMO, poorly designed and the model they used to determine additional years of life was questionable.  It didn't separate the participants by age at the time of surgery OR by the amount of weight lost OR the amount of time they were obese.  It showed something ridiculous like people only gaining 3 or 4 years on average.  You cannot tell me that someone who has only been obese since they were a teenager, was SMO, and was only in their late twenties or early thirties when they had surgery only gained 4 extra years of life over how long they would have lived if they had stayed at their surgery weight or, as happens to the vast majority of people, continued to gain as the years passed!  

No matter what kind of a study they do, there is no way of knowing when someone would have died if they had stayed obese/MO/SMO, so they are merely GUESSING at how many extra years of life they gained by losing the weight.  People who have gastric bypass sometimes die from things like accidents,  fires, or even suicide, all of which have nothing whatsoever to do with one's weight. Moreover, the life expectancy is much greater for someone who was only obese (instead of morbidly obese or super morbidly obese) and was only heavy for a short period of time than for someone who has always been heavy, and was SMO (BMI over 50) for many many years before having surgery.  The first person is less likely to have suffered permanent physical damage from the extra weight than the second person.

This is one area where averages are pretty meaningless.

Lora

My great aunt had one of the old fashioned stomach stapling surgeries back in the mid seventies and she is still going strong, still maintaining her weight. She's about 71 now. She has had minimal health issues since. Gives ME hope!