BMI and Weight Loss Surgery

Your BMI and Weight Loss Surgery Success - What New Research Suggests

In his research at the University of Texas-Houston Medical Center, Brad Snyder, MD, reviews data on weight loss surgery outcomes every day. When he wanted to isolate the factors leading to success or failure after bariatric surgery, the data led him to an intriguing conclusion. Dr. Snyder recently shared his findings about starting BMIs with ObesityHelp.

What sparked your interest in considering starting BMIs in weight loss surgery outcomes, and what did your research uncover?

I wanted to define what might predict a person’s outcome after weight loss surgery. When I looked at the gastric banding patients, one significant difference between those who failed and those who succeeded was their starting BMI. The people who failed to lose more than 15 percent of their excess weight had an average BMI of 49. The people who lost more than 30 percent of their excessive weight at a year out had an average BMI of about 43.

I looked at about 600 gastric band patients a year out from surgery. I stratified their BMIs, charting patients with BMIs in the 30s, the 40s and the 50s while noting their excessive weight loss over a year. It was very clear that people with a BMI of 30 lost considerably more weight over that year than people with BMIs in the 50s.....read more here.

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