Weight loss surgery seems not more risky for the elderly (HealthDay)

worse than younger people, senior citizens can experience weight loss surgery without any side effects you new research shows to undergo.

"Age seems to be no significant predictor of mortality or major incidents but it said before a longer hospital stay,", Dr. Robert B. Dorman, which is planned, said the results Monday digestive diseases week in Chicago present. Research on medical meeting should be considered as provisional.

"Assessment of risk in the elderly a celebridad will question, above all, such as age, baby boomers continue to" be Dorman, added the statement at a Conference of April 21 news discussed. "Bariatric surgeons should with caution on an older obese patients surgical procedures." "We certainly give no green light for these patients work without individual risk."

It has some discussions about whether it is installed, this type of surgery on older obese patients to perform.

According to Dr. Stephen Carryl, Director of bariatric surgery at the Brooklyn has Hospital Center in New York City, the national institutes of health-recommended, age should be the cut off point for bariatric surgery by 65 years of age.

", The way has become the artificial standard," he said.

On the other hand, added Medicare for weight loss surgery in the elderly population he wears, added.

These researchers of examined a database on close to 50,000 patients, the different types of weight loss surgery between 2005 and 2009 subjected. 4 Percent were over 65, said Dorman, a resident-general surgery at the University of Minnesota medical school in Minneapolis.

Surgery was bariatric more older people in 2009 than in the year 2005 (4.77% to 1.92%).

There was a trend towards more mortality in patients in the age of 65, but it was important, said the authors.

Although age was correlated with side effects such as heart attacks and blood clots, were higher body mass index (BMI), diabetes and chronic kidney failure.

The only obvious downside, that bariatric surgery was when older, at least in this group, a longer hospital stay.

However, shows that the procedures are secure in an elderly population does not mean that people over 65 will have access to them.

"Medicare is a small player in the bariatric population", said Carryl. "The majority have private health insurance."

And not all pays for commercial vendors in the elderly population.

More information

The U.S. National Library of medicine has more on weight loss surgery.

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