A health status assessment of the impact of weight loss following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for clinically severe obesity

Abstract

Clinically severe obesity is a chronic disabling disease that results in significantly decreased health status in seven of the eight areas measured by SF-36. This disability resolves with successful weight reduction. In some areas, function even surpasses the national "normal" population. Surgical treatment of clinically severe obesity has a profoundly positive impact on patients' perception of their health status.