Surgical study highlights pros and cons of gastric bypass surgery for severe obesity

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 11:14 in Health & Medicine

Severely obese patients who underwent two different gastric bypass techniques had lost up to 31 per cent of their Body Mass Index (BMI) after four years, with no deaths reported among the 50 study subjects, according to the November issue of the British Journal of Surgery.

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