With bariatric surgery, a patient’s starting weight makes a difference, study finds
Bariatric surgery — an option for some people who are morbidly obese — tends to be most successful before patients gain too much weight, a study finds.
Bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment for people who are morbidly obese, but the procedure tends to be most successful when done before patients gain too much weight, researchers reported Wednesday.
That means that policies and practices that delay operations lead to poorer health outcomes, the researchers argued in their study, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Surgery.
Relying on records from thousands of bariatric surgeries performed
