By Robert Preidt
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, Nov. 14, 2016 (HealthDay Information) -- Weight-loss surgical procedure might considerably cut back overweight individuals's threat of coronary heart failure, a brand new examine signifies.
Researchers in contrast greater than 25,800 overweight individuals who had weight-loss (bariatric) surgical procedure with greater than 13,700 overweight individuals who tried to shed some pounds by a program of main life-style modifications. Each teams had no historical past of coronary heart failure.
4 years after the beginning of remedy, the weight-loss surgical procedure group had misplaced extra weight, had an almost 50 p.c decrease threat of coronary heart failure, and had decrease charges of coronary heart rhythm issues, diabetes and hypertension than the lifestyle-changes group, the findings confirmed.
Each teams had comparable charges of coronary heart assault and dying, in keeping with the examine, which was scheduled for presentation Monday on the American Coronary heart Affiliation (AHA) annual assembly, in New Orleans.
"Our examine exhibits an affiliation between weight problems and coronary heart failure, and affords help for efforts to stop and deal with weight problems aggressively, together with the usage of bariatric surgical procedure," senior writer Dr. Johan Sundstrom stated in an AHA information launch.
"Bariatric surgical procedure would possibly have an effect on the incidence of atrial fibrillation, diabetes and hypertension -- recognized threat components of coronary heart failure -- explaining the decrease threat of coronary heart failure we noticed," added Sundstrom, who's a professor of epidemiology at Uppsala College in Sweden.
Sundstrom famous that whereas the examine discovered that coronary heart failure threat was decrease in sufferers who misplaced extra weight, it doesn't show that weight problems causes coronary heart failure.
As well as, as a result of the examine members have been all from a Scandinavian inhabitants, it's unclear whether or not the findings would relate to a U.S. inhabitants, the authors famous within the information launch.
Analysis introduced at medical conferences needs to be seen as preliminary till printed in a peer-reviewed journal.
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