{"id":6900,"date":"2011-03-14T16:13:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T20:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:30","slug":"aha-offers-qualified-endorsement-of-weight-loss-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/03\/14\/aha-offers-qualified-endorsement-of-weight-loss-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"AHA Offers Qualified Endorsement of Weight-Loss Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, the AHA has offered a qualified endorsement of bariatric surgery. The scientific statement, <a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/reprint\/CIR.0b013e3182149099\">published in\u00a0<em>Circulation<\/em><\/a>, states that bariatric surgery is a relatively safe procedure that can lead to long-term weight loss and significantly improve health in appropriately selected obese patients who have been unable to lose weight nonsurgically.<\/p>\n<p>But, said Paul Poirier, the lead author of the statement, in an AHA press release, &#8220;it is not an across-the-board endorsement of bariatric surgery for the severely obese. It is a consensus document that provides expert perspective based on the results of recent scientific studies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement notes that surgical weight loss can &#8220;completely reverse established diabetes mellitus in a large percentage of subjects&#8221; and results in improvements in lipids, inflammation, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, hypertension, sleep apnea, and cardiac function. The report states that &#8220;there is increasing, although not definitive, evidence that bariatric surgery provides a significant survival benefit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, the AHA has offered a qualified endorsement of bariatric surgery. The scientific statement, published in\u00a0Circulation, states that bariatric surgery is a relatively safe procedure that can lead to long-term weight loss and significantly improve health in appropriately selected obese patients who have been unable to lose weight nonsurgically. But, said Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[737,284,355],"class_list":["post-6900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prevention","tag-bariatric-surgery","tag-obesity","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}