Surgery: still obese, but healthier

Many severely obese patients who undergo weight loss surgery remain severely obese after the operation and yet their quality of life and obesity-related diseases - like diabetes and high blood pressure - improve, new research shows.

As reported in the Archives of Surgery, Dr Michel Suter, of Hopital du Chablais, Aigle-Monthey, Lausanne, Switzerland, and colleagues assessed the outcomes of 133 super obese patients and 492 morbidly obese patients who underwent gastric bypass weight loss surgery.  Click here for full article.