[Mount Athos]

family friend had a daughter die from gastric bypass few months ago

[Mrs. Don-o]

My surgeon has had 5 deaths in the 3-months post-op period for 1,800 RNY gastric bypasses. (The deaths were all from pulmonary embolism.) That's 0.28% (zero-point-two-eight) percent. That's far outweighed by the incidence of death of similarly circumstanced, matched obese people who have not had the surgery, in EVERY category of disease, inluding the various complications of diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and even cancer.

[Mrs. Don-o]

My surgeon has had 5 patient deaths in the 3-months post-op period for 1,800 RNY gastric bypasses. (The deaths were all from pulmonary embolism.) That's 0.28% (zero-point-two-eight) percent. That's far outweighed by the incidence of death of similarly circumstanced, matched obese people who have not had the surgery, in EVERY category of disease, inluding the various complications of diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and even cancer.

Check out Long-Term Mortality after Gastric Bypass Surgery from The New England Journal of Medicine:

"During a mean follow-up of 7.1 years, adjusted long-term mortality from any cause in the surgery group decreased by 40%, as compared with that in the control group (37.6 vs. 57.1 deaths per 10,000 person-years, P<0.001); cause-specific mortality in the surgery group decreased by 56% for coronary artery disease (2.6 vs. 5.9 per 10,000 person-years, P=0.006), by 92% for diabetes (0.4 vs. 3.4 per 10,000 person-years, P=0.005), and by 60% for cancer (5.5 vs. 13.3 per 10,000 person-years, P<0.001).

[retrokitten]

On another board I frequent, one woman’s husband went in for gastric bypass, was feeling fine right after the surgery, but had a stroke a couple of days later.

Plus, we lost FReeper, texasflower, due to complications from gastric bypass surgery several years ago.