Substantial intentional weight loss and mortality in the severely obese

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To compare all-cause mortality in a surgical weight loss cohort with a similarly aged, obese population-based cohort. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: Significant weight loss following bariatric surgery improves the comorbidities associated with obesity. Improved survival as a result of surgical weight loss has yet to be clearly demonstrated using clinical data. METHODS: The surgical weight loss cohort was a series of consecutive patients treated with a laparoscopic adjustable gastric band in Melbourne between June 1994 and April 2005. The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study (MCCS) provided a community control cohort, recruited between 1992 and 1994 and followed to June 2005 to determine..