Weight Loss After Gastric Bypass Surgery May Protect Against Infection And Cancer

Another health benefit of bariatric weight-loss surgery may be a heightened immune defense against cancer and infections, a new study suggests. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society’s 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.”Obesity is related to a higher rate of infections and some types of cancer,” said a study coauthor, Alfredo Halpern, PhD, of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Filed under: GastroIntestinal / Gastroentorology on June 19th, 2008