Additional Impact of Bariatric Surgery

Benefits beyond diabetes control

Bariatric surgery has shown dramatic impact not only on type 2 diabetes, but other life-threatening conditions:

• High cholesterol: lowered in 70% of patients
• High blood pressure: resolved (disappeared) in 62% of patients
• Obstructive sleep apnea (breathing disturbances during sleep): resolved in 86% of patients

What’s more, in patients undergoing bariatric surgery, death rates fell in these categories:

• Deaths from all causes: 40% reduction
• From coronary artery disease: 56% reduction
• From cancer: 60% reduction
• From diabetes: 92% reduction