For many people weight loss surgery is very much a last resort and something to be avoided as long a possible while they explore all of their choices.

Indeed, in the majority of cases people are helped in this by their doctor who will insist on an extended program of diet and exercise before even considering referring a patient to a bariatric surgeon. But is this the best approach?

Apart from the simple fact that almost everybody agrees that diet and exercise programs do not work for the vast majority of patients, there is very good evidence to show that delaying surgery is actually putting patient’s lives at risk.

In a recent study the records of more than 2,000 patients who underwent obesity surgery between 1995 and 2004 in one particular medical center were studies. The researchers wished to see if there were any factors which would have predicted the risks for this group of patients before they underwent surgery and they identified 5 things that they felt increased a patient’s risk from surgery.

The first of the five factors was gender with men being at greater risk than women. The second factor was a body mass index of over 50. The third factor was age with people over the age of 45 being at higher risk. The fourth factor was the presence of high blood pressure, often linked to cardiovascular disease. The last factor was previous evidence of a blood clot in the lungs (pulmonary embolus) or a propensity for this condition.

The team went on to award a point for the presence of each of these factors and divided the overall study group into those at low, medium and high risk according to their scores. The then looked at the death rates for these three groups and discovered that in the low risk group the death rate was 0.31%, in the medium risk group it was 1.9% and in the high risk group it was 7.56%.

Now there is nothing you can do about your gender but, when it comes to the other factors, the effect as far as the complications of gastric bypass surgery are concerned are obvious. Getting older, continuing to put on weight and developing health problems will all raise the risks posed by surgery. Thus, if you are morbidly obese, then perhaps you ought to consider having surgery early and balance the risks involved in waiting against the possibility of finding a successful alternative.

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