Popularity of obesity surgery makes dramatic gains
''I had this thought: If I die on the operating table, having the surgery to try to better my life, I thought it was a better thing to do than to live the way I was living, which, in my opinion, I was kind of waiting to die anyway,'' he said.
By the tens of thousands, an increasing number of morbidly obese people who have failed at diets, support groups and exercise programs are turning to surgery to lose weight.
In 1998, there were 25,800 obesity-related surgeries, most of those gastric-bypass procedures commonly known as stomach stapling. This year, there will be an 103,200 surgeries, according to the American Society for Bariatric Surgery.
Questions about the risks and growing use of the procedures surfaced in recent weeks after two patients in New England died during stomach-stapling surgeries. However, obesity specialists say the procedure is safer than it has ever been and that is contributing to the growing popularity.- copyrightBoston Globe/AP -
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