Surgery for obesity is linked to longer survival

Obese people seem likely to live longer if they have bariatric surgery (for obesity) than if they don’t—with 53 percent lower risk of dying from any cause at five to 14 years after the procedure. So concluded a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) involving 2,500 obese patients and nearly 7,500 matched controls. All of them were receiving care at medical centers across the United States in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health system.

Read it in Group Health Research News.