Bariatric Surgery May Reduce Life Expectancy For Morbidly Obese Diabetics
Sunday, February 8, 2015 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Bariatric surgery improves life expectancy for many obese diabetic patients, but it may cut life expectancy for patients who are super obese with very high body mass indexes, according to a University of Cincinnati researcher. "For most patients with diabetes and a BMI (body mass index) greater than 35, bariatric surgery increases life expectancy," says Daniel Schauer, MD, assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at UC. "However, the benefit of surgery decreases as BMI increases. The patients with a BMI over 62 likely don't gain any life expectancy with surgery." The findings were published recently online in the Annals of Surgery. read more