Weight gain and being overweight has reached significant global proportions. Often being overweight is associated with a number of medical problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes, sleep apnoea, gout, polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD), high cholesterol and an increased risk of cancer.
Research has shown that weight loss achieved by diet and exercise can improve a number of these medical conditions, but this can be difficult for a person to maintain. It has also been shown that weight loss surgery results in a more rapid and sustained resolution of these same medical conditions and therefore weight loss surgery is now also referred to as “metabolic surgery”.
Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is a simple and effective keyhole weight loss operation that has these effects on the following conditions due to rapid and sustained weight loss
- Improves or resolves diabetes in 80-90% of people.
- Improves or resolves hypertension and high cholesterol in 70% of people
- Improves or resolves sleep apnoea in 90% of individuals
- Improves or resolves polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD) in 90% of women
- Improves or resolves gout
- Decreases the risk of cancer
