Surgery for obesity may impair bone

Doctors do not know yet what is the probability that the bones of patients well enough to impair fracture in the years after the operation, but one of the first attempts to identify duplicate transactions suggests that risk and that patients are more likely to break a hand or a foot.

The findings are amazing and are carried out more research to determine whether that link is real, but the blooms and even bariatric surgery teens in their formative years trying to the bone, experts say it is urgent to discover long-term side effects and how to counter them.

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These procedures”are being sold as a panacea,”he warned last week Dr. Silverberg Shonni Joy of Columbia University at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, where the relationship between fat and bone was the central theme. ”It is extremely important to find the answers to these questions,”he said.

Here’s the irony: In reality it is considered that obesity protects against osteoporosis, the weakening of the bones, possibly the only good thing that any doctor would say excess fat.

Begin”better than most of us,”said the expert in bone metabolism, Dr. Jackie Clowes. So the big question is whether we really end up with weaker bones, or whether simply going through a transition period in which the bone adapts to her new body size.

Some 15 million people in the United States are considered extremely obese, with an excess of 45 kilograms (100 pounds) or more.

Diet alone is not enough antidote to diabetes and other health problems, so that surgery is becoming the preferred treatment from the pressures of the stomach called gastric bypass to other less invasive methods. Patients tend to lose 15% to 25% of its original weight and improves diabetes.

Over one million 200 thousand patients in the United States have undergone surgery in the last decade and only 220 thousand last year, according to the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

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