Benefits of a Gastric Band operation

• Weight loss - most weight is lost in the first 1-2 years
  
  

• Follow up data indicate 50-60% of excess weight is lost at 5 years
  
  

• Improvements in the “co-morbidities” of obesity – mood, mobility, exercise capacity and sleeping patterns
  
  

• The lap band procedure is fully reversible
  
  

• The anatomy of the stomach is not altered in any way
  
  

• Short hospital stay (usually overnight)
  
  

• Gastric band surgery does not affect the absorption of food and nutrients through the intestines
  
  

• In the hands of a good surgeon gastric band / lapband surgery is a low risk procedure
  
  

• Lap band results: for some, gastric banding is not merely life-transforming, but life-saving
  
  

• There are major health benefits - see below
  
  

Read the Healthier Weight study of Gastric Band patients over a 12 year period

What are the Health Benefits?

Gastric banding has a major – often a dramatic - beneficial impact on a wide variety of obesity-associated conditions. There is, quite simply, no other therapy which improves quality of life so much.  And, in particular, no other therapy that so clearly protects people from premature death and disability.  A study on lap band results published in Obesity Surgery in 2007 by members of the Healthier Weight Clinical Team, showed that gastric banding / lapbanding reduced the risk of premature death in obese subjects by 60%!

The box below summarises the health benefits of gastric banding.