Bariatric Surgery Deaths
Is this a holocaust of fat in the making?
David Flum and his colleagues found the mortality rate for all medicare bariatric surgery patients (mean age = 47) between 1997 and 2002. The mortality rate one year after surgery was 4.6%. Http: / / jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/294/15/1903 an estimated 19 million people in this country have diabetes type II. Of these, 78% have a BMI over 35 and so are considered candidates bariatric surgery. Http: / / www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/health/research/23diabetes.html?hp If we have done the surgery in all patients, and had a rate mortality of 4.6%, this would mean about 680,000 deaths. Is this a holocaust of fat in the making?
I wouldnt call it a holocaust! but U.S. getting fatter, and some other countries are very close! like New Zealand, people need to stop eating fast food and coke and stuff! its sad how there a macdonals how each country! .. and its sad how many people go to them! I think serious
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