Re: Obesity Surgery Death Rates

[Guest guest]

Five % sounds scary.

That looks like stomach stapling and the like, not, eg, lipo-suction.

On thing I find curious:

"Flum said the new study suggests that in many cases, obesity surgery may not be right for an older person "who already has the burden of 60 years of obesity on their heart" and other organs."

That make sense? How do you lessen the burden - wait?

Anyway, I doubt that surgery should be on the list to be paid by medicare, when they are trying to limit coronary bypasses, eg.

Clearly, I needed to learn to eat less food, so other 65yos can do it too. Whether that reduces their weight is another matter.

First problem is to quit growing.

So funding would be better spent on clinics to reduce weight.

Regards.

[ ] Obesity Surgery Death Rates

Hi folks:"But in a study of 16,155 Medicare patients who underwent obesity surgery, more than 5 percent of men and nearly 3 percent of women aged 35 to 44 were dead within a year. And slightly higher rates were found in patients 45 to 54. Among patients 65 to 74, nearly 13 percent of men and about 6 percent of women died. In patients 75 and older, half of the men and 40 percent of the women died."http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/diet.fitness/10/18/obesity.surgery.ap/index.htmlhttp://snipurl.com/iow7Rodney.

[Guest guest]

Five % sounds scary.

That looks like stomach stapling and the like, not, eg, lipo-suction.

On thing I find curious:

"Flum said the new study suggests that in many cases, obesity surgery may not be right for an older person "who already has the burden of 60 years of obesity on their heart" and other organs."

That make sense? How do you lessen the burden - wait?

Anyway, I doubt that surgery should be on the list to be paid by medicare, when they are trying to limit coronary bypasses, eg.

Clearly, I needed to learn to eat less food, so other 65yos can do it too. Whether that reduces their weight is another matter.

First problem is to quit growing.

So funding would be better spent on clinics to reduce weight.

Regards.

[ ] Obesity Surgery Death Rates

Hi folks:"But in a study of 16,155 Medicare patients who underwent obesity surgery, more than 5 percent of men and nearly 3 percent of women aged 35 to 44 were dead within a year. And slightly higher rates were found in patients 45 to 54. Among patients 65 to 74, nearly 13 percent of men and about 6 percent of women died. In patients 75 and older, half of the men and 40 percent of the women died."http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/diet.fitness/10/18/obesity.surgery.ap/index.htmlhttp://snipurl.com/iow7Rodney.