Low demise measure after corpulence surgery in Sweden

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Death rates before long after anti-corpulence or "bariatric" surgery in Sweden are little, statistics display.

"Most published series are from high-amount authority centers," according to conduct investigator Dr. Richard Marsk from Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm. "We be obsessed or in ownership of shown that bariatric surgery can be performed with squat mortality on a nationwide even."

Marsk and colleagues assessed deaths from any fountain-head after heaviness deprivation surgery in Sweden using facts from 14,768 bariatric procedures conducted between 1980 and 2005.

The beforehand pole-surgery demise measure ranged from 0.2 percent at 30 days to 0.3 percent at 90 days, they account, with a 1-year cumulative decease pace of 0.5 percent.

The 1-year cumulative disappearing gait adjusted representing lifetime was higher championing men (1.1 percent) than for women (0.4 percent) and higher for patients older than duration 50 (1.2 percent) than for patients younger than extent of being 50 (0.4 percent).

Including the complete move or come after or next-up interval, the age-adjusted expiring rapidity was twice as lofty for men (100 per 10,000 persons per year) than for women (50 per 10,000 persons per year).

"I accept that the increased mortality seen amongst men is due to increased preoperative co-ailing sickness and also later referral to surgery, such that men to a greater greatness own established cardiovascular affliction at the period of surgery," Marsk said.

"Further studies are needed to explain this in filled," he added.

Cumulative mortality did not disjoin between patients having first surgery or "revisional" surgery, the researchers note.

The most same causes of end during the first year after avoirdupois bereavement surgery were non-Colloq ticker associate, the investigators description, whereas the most daily causes of late death were send assail and cancer.

SOURCE: Annals of Surgery, November 2008.