Israeli scientists have found that obese patients who underwent a weight loss operation are at a lower risk of premature death than those who resorted to diets, according to an Internet publication for girls and women aged 14 to 35. Pannochka. net As Lenta writes. ru, this is reported in a press release on the website EurekAlert!. The article is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

8,385 patients participated in the study in absentia, who from 2005 to 2014 underwent various types of bariatric operations (procedures for the treatment of obesity). Including laparoscopic - through the holes in the body - the application of the ring to the stomach, gastric bypass or sleeve gastroplasty.

In addition, experts tracked the health of 25,000 obese people who tried to lose weight with the help of diets and a healthy lifestyle.

Scientists compared mortality rates in both groups of participants. It turned out that for four and a half years the risk of death was lower in those who had surgery than those who fought with obesity with non-surgical methods.

In 2016, a group of scientists from the University of Pittsburgh published the results of a study showing that bariatric surgery leads to an improvement in the patient's well-being for at least three years.

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