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- - Obesity rates among Canadian adults have significantly increased, leading to concerns about achieving healthy weights and addressing related health issues.
- - Bariatric surgery is suggested as a treatment for a small percentage of obese individuals but has not shown consistent usage trends across Canadian provinces from 1996-97 to 2003-04.
- - In 2003-04, the majority of bariatric surgeries were performed on women (87%), with an average hospital stay of 5 days and a low readmission rate of 1.4% within a week after discharge.
Article Abstract
Obesity rates for Canadian adults are much higher today than in the past, raising questions about how to achieve healthy weights and mitigate the associated health risks. While not a solution at the population level, bariatric surgery may be a treatment option for a relatively small proportion of obese individuals. In Canada, unlike in the United States, no consistent trend was evident in the use of this surgery between 1996-97 and 2003-04 across the five provinces for which comparable data were available. In 2003-04, bariatric surgeries were performed predominantly for women (87%); the average length of stay in hospital was 5 days; and 1.4% of patients were readmitted to hospital within 7 days of their discharge after surgery.
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