Weight Loss

The U.S. health sector, recently released statistics show that, with the U.S. obesity rate has continued to grow, more and more people began to lose weight by surgical means.

Ministry of Health of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Bureau of the nation’s diet to carry out investigations and found that in 1998 only 772 U.S. 55-year-old to 64-year-olds through surgical weight loss, but in 2004, that figure soared to 15000 or more. Together with other surgical weight loss age in 2004, the United States through a variety of surgical weight-loss total of up to 120,000 people.

Bureau, said in a statement, resulting in a substantial increase in the number of surgical weight loss is mainly due to the safety of weight loss surgery has greatly increased. In 1998, the U.S. weight-loss surgery mortality rate was 0.9%, to 2004, the mortality rate dropped to 0.2%.

It was responsible for human Kaluolinke Sai said that due to risk of obesity of Americans is growing increasingly younger, eager to surgical weight loss of young people is increasing. In 2004, 100,000 more than in the 18-year-old to 54-year-old age group of Americans to lose weight through surgery, along with 349 12-year-old to 17-year-old young man to lose weight through surgery.

However, the current weight-loss surgery complications still can not be totally avoided. According to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Council in June 2006 released a study of every 10 persons who underwent weight-loss surgery, there are four complications within six months.

University of Pennsylvania, according to a recent survey conducted by the United States is obesity and overweight in developed countries the most populous country, an average of every three a fat person. Every year, Americans for the treatment of obesity and related diseases cost more than 90 billion U.S. dollars.