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Originally Posted by russ
For the time being, medium term ~ 1 year, long term ~3-5 years. 5-10 years from now, those definitions will no longer hold.
My request to you, based on what you wrote initially, is to provide evidence from indexed sources which demonstrate that most patients regain most or all of the weight they've lost.
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As I've written above, I'm at work, and don't have the sources handy. I'll post them tomorrow.
However, even without them, I must say defining 1-5 years as "long term" with this sort of drastic surgery hardly seems appropriate. It would seem that 10 years would be a more logical (bare) minimum. Not for the least of which reason is the surgery's tendency to create serious problems with calcium absorption. I've never been able to figure out what the point is of having people take do much calcium after having that surgery, when their bodies can barely do anything with it anyway.
It'll be interesting to see in twenty years at what the rate the people who've had the surgery suffer from osteoporosis, along with other ailments that are linked to calcium deficiency, compared to the general population.
Again, until they can find a way to make fat bodies deal with food like thin bodies, things like bariatric surgery will remain an unreliable and, in spite of the spin many doctors tend to put on it, ultimately unhealthy patch that will continue to be relied upon.