Obesity Help Questions:
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The Swedish Obese subject group of studies (SOS studies) have been looking at a lot of the questions that are raised.
1.) Diet and exercise in relation to weight loss surgery. The study found weight loss surgical procedures far more superior to the conventional diet and exercise plans. Their original data offered a relationship between the nonsurgical method and the RNY gastric bypass, VBG, and banding procedures. The long-term outcomes in 15 years of data were plotted and it is significant that the control (the nonsurgical group) had no sustained weight loss.
2.) The follow-up question was asked to find if there are any life-extending benefits to weight loss surgical procedures. This is a question that has only recently been answered, since it takes time to know if patients who have had weight loss surgery live longer or not. The published data in NEJM in 2007 by the SOS group answered this same specific question.
Ara Keshishian, MD, FACS, FASMBS
The graphs are from https://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/8/741
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Hi dr K im a past tech that worked with you. You used to call me Oscar.. Just wAnted to tell you hi and i enjoy reading about your procedures.