Bariatric surgery reduces the long-term risk of heart attack and stroke as well as the risk of dying from them, a prospective non-randomized study showed. During a median 14.7 years of follow-up, any bariatric procedure cut risk of a first fatal or non-fatal event by 33 percent compared with no bariatric surgery for obese individuals after adjusting for other factors, Lars Sjöström, MD, PhD, of Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, and colleagues found.
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