Overall, the low - carb diet had significantly more beneficial effects on weight and key biomarkers in this group of
severely obese individuals.
It's also unclear if the results can be generalized to
severely obese individuals or other ethnicities.
Yes, it is true that
some severely obese individuals have been documented to survive fasts much longer than 60 days, but only because their extreme obesity was also associated with greater underlying lean body mass (LBM) to begin with.
Large observational studies report that in
severely obese individuals, bariatric surgery is associated with long - term reductions in all major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, CVD events such as heart attacks and strokes, cancer and all - cause mortality, including a 92 % decrease in diabetes - related deaths.
Bariatric surgery is an accepted method of promoting weight loss in
severely obese individuals.
Not exact matches
Schauer and a team of researchers developed a decision analytic model to compare life expectancy in a group of
severely obese diabetic
individuals who had bariatric surgery to a group that did not have bariatric surgery.