Stomach Surgery May Save Teenagers From Heart Disease

Sao Camilo Hospital, heart disease reasearches said that teenagers who reduced their stomachs size by surgery have lost approximately half of their weight. And laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery removed high blood pressure and diabetes of type 2 from the teenagers who had these surgeies. Forty two teenagers aged between 13 to 18 with average weight 269 pounds were involved in the study.Four years after the surgeries the average weight felt to 135 pounds.The result was 16 teenagers were Cured from hypertension and trhree from type 2 diabetes.