Increase risk for this problem to drink after gastric bypass surgery (HealthDay)

Could the quotas for alcohol abuse increase gastric bypass weight loss surgery then?

This is the identification of a group of Swedish researchers who have been present for last Saturday at the digestive disease week Conference in Chicago to their data.

A team from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has more than 12 000 patients, the primary bariatric surgery between 1980 and 2006 subjected. The patients were compared with a control group nearly 123,000 patients from the general population.

The study found there was greater risk of hospitalization for depression, suicide, drug abuse and alcoholism after weight loss surgery. (Bariatric patients had a higher risk than the general population stay in hospital for psychiatric illness before her weight loss surgery.)

The researchers also found that gastric bypass surgery, in particular, face people who undergo, double the risk of inpatient treatment for alcohol abuse vs. those, the restrictive operations (such as stomach "Bonding" and the gastric banding technology) have.

"Patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery on alcohol consumption, carefully should be discussed" study lead author Dr. Magdalena Plecka Ostlund sponsor, the American Gastroenterological Association said in a press release from the session. "Also nursing staff should that so treatment can be searched more potential for alcohol abuse after the operation, if problems occur."

But also stressed that any increased risk for alcohol dependence following gastric bypass Ostlund should be weighed against the many health benefits of the procedure.

Apply provisional presented results at the meetings, as they not the strict peer review of the data in renowned journals published have been subjected to.

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