The still unpublished Mayo Clinic study suggested that bone loss a year after a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass can be equivalent to bone loss in the first five years of menopause for some women.
A retrospective chart study of patients undergoing the surgery found 138 fractures in 82 patients, with a standardized incidence ratio of 2.1 for any fracture and 1.9 for fractures of the hip, spine, wrist or arm.
Read the Internal Medical News report on bone loss after bariatric surgery.
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