It’s higher than you think. Something to consider when looking at the procedure:
About 1% of bariatric surgery patients die within a year of surgery, researchers here found, and the case fatality rate approaches 6% after five years.
But a retrospective look at all of the bariatric surgery performed in Pennsylvania from 1995 through 2004 found a “substantial excess” of deaths by suicide and coronary heart disease.
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