Super obese- article indicates bariatric surgery does not extend life span (bmi>62)

Interesting article. In a nutshell it finds that for folks with a bmi above 35 but less than 62 bariatric surgery extends life. Above 62, it shortens, It didn't get too much into why other than saying there are more complications and regain issues post op. Here is the link.

Wow, very interesting..  

As someone with a starting BMI over 62, this makes me very sad. 

Even if the the "study" takes all variables into account, I feel like I am going to have a healthier life than where I was headed.  

I would imagine that someone with a BMI that high has way more health issues to take into account than obesity.  Many of them may or may not be cured very quickly by wls.

Yeah, seems logical. When I had my surgery my bmi was 83. By that time I'd already had 2 heart attacks, chronic pancreatitis, CHF and diabetes. After the surgery the diabetes and pancreatitis went into remission but nothing can shrink my heart nor take away 20+ years of smoking. I don't expect to be very long lived, however, my quality of life is a thousand times better :)

Wow!! That's crazy my starting bmi was  72 I believe its 63 now my surgery is today 7am im currently 383 I have no major health issue besides being SMO I have had everything checked and I don't have any weight related medical conditions. I know at this weight I won't be as healthy as I am for long, im

Hoping this procedure saves my life and is prevenative and not cause more problems that's really hard to hear!

best wishes for a healthy and happy life

One important thing to note is that this article (the scientific paper, not the synopsis) is a modeling exercise using parameters from multiple other studies, so it is reflective of population characteristics NOT individual results. It also was specific to diabetics. And it was a study of gastric bypass patients.

So, with all of those caveats, just because you have a BMI of more than 62 does not mean that you will not be successful after surgery or that your life will be shortened because of surgery.  It's difficult in a study like this to tease out WHY they're seeing what they did, but they speculated that having a BMI of 62+ likely means that they were diabetic longer than those with a lower BMI.

Agreed!  Diabetic for longer usually means more long-term damage to the veins/vessels and body organs.  And that contributes directly to stroke, heart attack, etc.  

What they also don't talk about is the fact that any surgical procedure is much more complicated and potentially deadly for people that size.