Obesity and Mortality Risk
Obesity Study
A Veterans Administration study of 200 morbidly obese men aged 23 to 70
years, with an average weight of 316 lbs (143.5 kg) showed a twelve fold
increase in mortality in the 25-34 year age group and a six fold increase
in the 35-44 year age group. During the average follow-up period of 7
½ years, 50 of the original group had died. An interesting ongoing
study in this regard is the Swedish Obesity Study (SOS) in which 2000
patients have been randomized to diet therapy and gastric restrictive
surgery. The obesity study is still incomplete but indicates reduction
in diabetes, hypertension and lipid disturbances in the surgically treated
group.
Obesity & Health Care
Health care for the six million morbidly obese adults in the United States
of America, eighty percent of whom are women of childbearing age, has
been hampered by the misconception that body weight is not a physiologically
regulated variable, but rather determined by acquired food habits and
conscious and unconscious desires.
Source: American Society for Bariatric
Surgery
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