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Gastric Band

Healthier Weight - Weight Loss Aftercare

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)

  • 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.   

 

Summary of the health benefits of LAGB 

Type II diabetes – 80-85% of gastric band patients will have either complete resolution of their diabetes or marked improvement in diabetic control

Hypertension – 75% of gastric band patients will be able to reduce or stop their anti-hypertensive (blood pressure) medication 

Dyslipidaemia – 75% of gastric band patients show major improvement or complete resolution of abnormal blood fats (eg cholesterol and triglycerides) 

Sleep apnoea – around 75% of gastric band patients on CPAPwill be able to discontinue this and almost all will experience major improvements in sleeping patterns and reductions in snoring and daytime fatigue 

Reflux – more than 90% of gastric band patients will experience major and rapid resolution of symptoms 

Stress incontinence – the majority of gastric band patients experience marked improvement or complete resolution of symptoms 

Infertility and PCOS*  – LAGB has been shown to correct the underlying hormonal problems and to restore fertility in 90% of cases 

Asthma – almost all gastric band patients with asthma experience marked improvement in symptoms and a reduction in medication  

Liver disease (NASH)¶  following LAGB there is complete resolution of the disease in 80% of cases 

Back pain and arthritis – gastric band patients experience marked reduction in joint and back pain and increased mobility 

Psychological wellbeing – depressive symptoms and anxiety are less after lapband weight loss surgery, social interaction is improved and overall quality of life and vitality are enhanced 

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† Continuous Positive Airways Pressure

*  Polycystic ovarian syndrome

¶   Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis