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Weight Change and Mortality from Cardiovascular Diseases: The Japan Collaborative Cohort Study.
CONCLUSIONS: Weight loss or gain could be a risk factor for mortality from total or ischemic CVD, while weight loss could be a risk factor for intracerebral hemorrhage. PMID: 32378530 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis - May 8, 2020 Category: Cardiology Tags: J Atheroscler Thromb Source Type: research

All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Associated with Bariatric Surgery: A Review
Abstract The question of whether or not nonsurgical intentional or voluntary weight loss results in reduced mortality has been equivocal, with long-term mortality following weight loss being reported as increased, decreased, and not changed. In part, inconsistent results have been attributed to the uncertainty of whether the intentionality of weight loss is accurately reported in large population studies and also that achieving significant and sustained voluntary weight loss in large intervention trials is extremely difficult. Bariatric surgery has generally been free of these conflicts. Patients voluntarily unde...
Source: Current Atherosclerosis Reports - October 26, 2015 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research