Talking about the bariatric surgery benefits in morbidly obese people. Bariatric surgery enhances weight loss in obese people who have not achieved long-term success with other weight loss attempts. Bariatric surgery reduces the stomach’s storage capacity, which limits food intake and helps you feel full much sooner than normal.
Weight loss surgery can restore a person’s dignity. financial independence and most importantly their health and survival.
But there’s more than one type of bariatric surgery. Options include gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, duodenal switch and bariatric revision surgery. Your physician can help determine if you’re a candidate and, if so, which option will work best for you.
Bariatric surgery has increased in safety due to advances in medical techniques and long-term outcomes have proven to be beneficial, however, most of the people who could benefit from treatment do not get it.
Improvements of Health Conditions
Bariatric surgery provides many health benefits in addition to weight loss, including:
- Diabetes: improved in 86% of patients, remission in 77% of patients
- Hypertension (high blood pressure): improved in 78% of patients, cured in 62% of patients
- Hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol and high triglycerides): improved in more than 70% of patients
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea: cured in 86% of patients
- Premature Death: 5-year mortality decreased by 89%
- Arthritis: significantly less pain and increased mobility
- Asthma: improved or resolved in 82% of patients
- Infertility: improved or resolved
- Skin infections and skin rashes: improved or resolved
- Ankle swelling: improved or resolved
- Lymphedema: improved or resolved
- Heart failure (obesity-related): improved or resolved
- Cardiovascular Disease: risk reduced by 82%
- Migraines: resolved in 57% of patients
- Depression: resolved in 55% of patients
- GERD: resolved in over 72% of patients
- Gout: resolved in 77% of patients
- Stress Urinary Incontinence: resolved in 44 – 88% of patients
- Metabolic Syndrome: resolved in 80% of patients
- Venous Stasis Disease: resolved in 95% of patients
- Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: improved or resolved
Longevity & Quality of Life
Obesity not only reduces a person’s life span by 13-20 years, but it affects the quality of life as well. Weight loss surgery has been shown to increase life expectancy and provide individuals with a happier, healthier, and more active life. The overall quality of life improves in 95% of obese individuals after weight loss surgery.
Weight loss surgery can improve your ability to participate in physical and recreational activities, improve your social and economic opportunities, and improve your overall sense of well being.
At Bariatric Surgery Tijuana they are dedicated to providing the highest quality of surgical weight loss management in a caring and compassionate setting.
