Bariatric Surgery Can Help You Live a Longer, Healthier Life

It’s no secret that obesity can cause a variety of negative health effects like heart disease, high blood pressure, and Type 2 diabetes. It’s also known that bariatric surgery is one of the best ways for obese patients to lose weight and shed some of these dangerous health conditions along with the pounds. Now, a new study has revealed that it is never too late to add years to your life with bariatric surgery with University Bariatrics. Precisely, patients have a 53% lower mortality rate 5-14 years after receiving a bariatric procedure compared to those who don’t have the surgery.

Dr. Amir Mehran has extensive experience performing every type of bariatric procedure including sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass procedures. Many doctors who practice bariatric surgery in Thousand Oaks shy away from gastric bypass procedures because it is more difficult to perform, but Dr. Mehran still performs the procedure for severely obese patients. This is because it is proven to help patients lose the most weight, and, when performed by Dr. Mehran, is as safe as simple surgeries like appendectomies. After all, 75 percent of the patients in the recently released study had gastric bypass surgery over the other options.