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LONDON — The number of weight-loss surgeries in England jumped more than tenfold from 2000 to 2007, a new study says.
Dr. Omar Faiz, a consultant surgeon at St. Mary’s Hospital in London, and colleagues monitored the number of weight- loss surgeries done in government hospitals. Overall, they found 6,953 such operations were performed to shrink the size of the patient’s stomach.
In 2000, there were 238 weight-loss surgeries, but by 2007 there were 2,543 such operations. The study was paid for by Britain’s National Institute of Health Research.
