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Health Benefits
The health benefits related to weight-loss surgery may improve your quality of life immediately and have lasting effects, if you follow dietary and exercise guidelines established by your doctor.
Patients who have had bariatric surgery traditionally see the following improvements in their health:
- Weight loss of up to 50% of excess weight within the first year after surgery
- Decrease or even remission of type 2 diabetes
- Dramatic reduction in high blood pressure
- Reduction in high cholesterol levels
- Reduction or elimination of sleep apnea
- Reduction in gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
In addition to these benefits, individuals who have undergone bariatric surgery and maintained a healthy lifestyle following the procedure have seen dramatic improvements in joint disease and asthma, reduction in cancer, and increased fertility. Many patients have lost between 60 and 75% of their excess weight and continue to see health benefits 10 to 14 years after their initial bariatric surgery procedure.
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