Question:
Yesterday on CNN I saw a piece in the crawl about long-term risk

of bariatric surgery for men. I have seen nothing else on this and have not received a response from CNN to my question. Does anyone have any insights into this? Ted Lehmann [email protected]    — Ted L. (posted on December 5, 2002)

December 4, 2002
I tried to put this on the message board yesterday and they posted everything BUT the URL to view the story! This is what I found about WLS and men. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20021204/hl_nm/obesity_men_dc_1
   — Stacy C.

December 4, 2002
Interesting, but it's results at one hospital over 7 years...hardly representative of the MO or SO (superobese) population as a whole. WLS has changed so much over the last 9 years - even the last 5 years) and including data from 1993-1997 while excluding more recent data biases the study further. <p> I was on Coumadin prior to surgery (due to PE in both lungs in January '02) and resumed it afterwards. My pre-op BMI was 74 - definitely in the SO category. One of my fellow support group members had WLS at 710 pounds and we have several other post-ops that were 400+ as pre-ops. <p> Excellent bariatric surgeons with the proper post-op regimen (anticoagulants in the hospital - possibly further post-op in higher-risk patients, patients encouraged/forced to get up and walk ASAP as surgery, etc) will minimize those risks...JR
   — John Rushton