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Reduced Risk of Heart Attack

Obesity is a major risk factor for Circulatory defects, Cardiovascular disease, Heart Failure and Stroke.

Large studies show that the risk of heart disease increases with obesity, and people with severe obesity are at a higher risk for coronary artery disease.

This means they have a higher risk of heart failure or a heart attack.

Severe obesity is associated with irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias). These arrhythmias can triple the risk of cardiac arrest. However, some excess weight can protect against death from heart failure after the diagnosis is made.

End Diabetes and Related Diseases

People affected by obesity or severe obesity are 10 times more likely to have Type 2 Diabetes, which nearly doubles the risk of death. 

The effective treatment Type II Diabetes by Metabolic Surgery results in 66% of sufferers become normal-glycaemic with normal fasting blood glucose, serum insulin, Hba1c levels and nearly all of them will require less medications for their diabetes.

Control Serious Comorbidities

By controlling obesity and diabetes improved health outcomes can include:

• Hypertension – 59% off all medications
  
• High cholesterol - Abnormal Lipidaemia normalised
  
• Sleep apnea – 74% no longer needed CPAP
  
• Asthma – 1/3 no further symptoms
  
• Reflux - Reflux oesophagitis – 89% controlled symptoms
  
• Arthritis or Osteoarthritis
  
• Infertility, Irregular Bleeding & Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome – 90% resolved
  
• Fatty Liver disease - Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis >50% complete resolution

Other Health Improvements

Conditions that commonly improve include;

• Nerve defects are reduced
  
• Infections become quicker to heal with reduced risk of amputations
  
• Impotence can be reduced
  
• Blindness and Eye Disease risks can be reduced
  
• Kidney disease drops

Psychological Impact of Weight Loss

Successful weight loss patients are able to engage in activities that they were not able to do before, such as travelling or riding a roller coaster.

They feel better about themselves and are happier in general, thanks to the more fulfilling life that they lead after losing weight.

So the psychological impact of effective weight loss is important and can include:

• Depression – Major reductions with 75% normal
  
• Improved Body Image and elevated self-esteem - Quality of Life – Sf-36 health questionnaire normalises
  
• Better employment opportunity
  
• Increased social opportunity with less social isolation



Obesity and Cancer

Obesity is believed to cause up to 90,000 cancer deaths per year. As body mass index (BMI) increases, so do the risk of cancer and death from cancer. The common cancers linked to obesity including Liver, Kidney, Thyroid, Prostate, Endometrial, Cervical, Ovarian, Postmenopausal Breast, Colorectal, Esophageal, Pancreatic, Gallbladder cancers, and Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Multiple myeloma, and Leukemia.