Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Following Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery

? Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a significant burden to the health care systems globally and remains the leading cause of mortality worldwide. ? Although lifestyle, dietary, and pharmacologic interventions produce modest improvements in body weight and cardiovascular (CV) risk factors, no studies have demonstrated that nonsurgical weight loss is associated with improved CV morbidity or mortality. ? Only marked weight loss associated with metabolic surgery is likely to decrease CV and all-cause?related mortality in obese patients, reducing both macrovascular and microvas

Automated summary

Cardiovascular disease remains a significant burden globally and metabolic surgery may reduce mortality in obese patients.