Bariatric Surgery / Procedure is a general term used for a variety of surgical procedures used to induce weight loss in obese or overweight persons by restricting the amount of food that the stomach can hold and/or reduce the volume of nutrients that the body can absorb.
There are multiple methods like: Gastric Bypass; Sleeve Gastrectomy, Gastric Banding. Which method is to be used depends on each particular case, and this is not something to be taken lightly. In fact, this should be considered only if dieting and exercise options have completely failed.
Benefits of Surgical Procedure:
- Drastically improved quality of life. Obese persons suffer severe fatigue, body pain and physical limitations like restricted movement. And, this surgery, by reducing their weight improves their quality of life.
- Slows down/reduces fatty liver disease. This is a liver condition affecting non-drinkers. While no real cause of this disease is known, it is linked to obesity, and severe weight reduction drastically slows/ reduces it.
- Controls diabetes. 92 % of all obese people are often diabetic and gastric procedure can significantly improve blood sugar control in such people.
- Reduces Hypertension. It is said that obese people account for around 25-28 % of hypertension cases and 15-23 percent of coronary diseases. This surgery has been reported to cause normalization in about 30-50% of the cases.
- Relief from Osteoarthritis/Joint pain. Reduced body weight means reduced strain on the body’s joints and this surgery has been known to provide dramatic pain reduction.
- Highly reduced mortality rates. Given the serious medical issues obese people face any weight reduction can have drastic reduction in mortality risks.
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA): This is the stoppage of breathing during sleeping and is more common in the obese, and weight loss can have substantiatve effect in reducing this improving sleep patterns and thus stress.
- Reduced risk of various forms of cancer like that of colon, gallbladder, breast and pancreas.
- Greatly reduces infertility risks in both men and women.
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