25 February Benefits of bariatric surgery

The benefits of bariatric surgery for morbid obesity include significant weight loss, improvement in obesity-related health conditions such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and sleep apnoea, reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, and improved quality of life.

Although it may seem like a simple excessive accumulation of fat, it leads to changes in all aspects of a person's life: psychological, social, and above all, in personal health.

It has been shown that the Obesity increases the risk to developing type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnoea and all the elements of what is known as “metabolic syndrome”. This metabolic syndrome is responsible for obese patients having a higher risk of suffering cardiovascular events (heart attack, stroke, etc.), that these events are more serious and that they have a shorter life expectancy than people who are not overweight.

The Bariatric surgery It is the most effective known treatment for morbid obesity. This surgery not only achieves significant and sustained weight reduction in patients, but it also has many other added benefits.

• To begin with, one of the most immediate benefits is the improvement in the quality of life of patients who have undergone surgery. Improvement in the psychological and social aspects for people with excess weight.
• Bariatric surgery has been shown to reverse type 2 diabetes in between 40 and 70% of patients; high blood pressure in 60% of cases; and the vast majority of patients using CPAP are able to stop using it.
• It reduces the risk of developing certain cancers, such as breast or endometrial cancer in women. Patients who have undergone bariatric surgery have increased survival rates compared to the non-operated obese population and reduce the risk of suffering heart attacks or strokes.
• There are other lesser-known beneficial effects of surgery such as: migraine, depression, asthma, fatty liver, urinary incontinence, osteoarthritis of the limbs, or varicose veins, among others.

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