by David Arterburn, MD, MPH, senior investigator at Group Health Research Institute and affiliate professor in the University of Washington School of Medicine
“In a large study of Veterans Affairs (VA) patients around the country, we found that those who had Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery lost much more weight than did matched patients who had no bariatric surgery. And the vast majority of patients sustained most of this weight loss in the long term—up to a decade. We published our findings, “Bariatric Surgery and Long-Term Durability of Weight Loss,” in JAMA Surgery today.”