Association of Patient Age at Gastric Bypass Surgery With Long-term All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Bariatric surgery is effective in reducing all-cause and cause-specific long-term mortality. Whether the long-term mortality benefit of surgery applies to all ages at which surgery is performed is not known.

Objective

To examine whether gastric bypass surgery is equally effective in reducing mortality in groups undergoing surgery at different ages.

Design, setting, and participants

All-cause and cause-specific mortality rates and hazard ratios (HRs) were estimated from a retrospective cohort within 4 categories defined by age at surgery: younger than 35 years, 35 through 44 years, 45 through 54 years, and 55 through 74 years. Mean follow-up was 7.2 years. Patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery seen at a private surgical practice from January 1, 1984, th

SUBMITTER: Davidson LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5055061 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature