Studying data from 442 patients undergoing weight loss surgery with a follow-up of six years, researchers found early morbidity was 5.4 percent after RYGBP and 17.2 percent after gastric banding. They also found more failures — patients with BMI of more than 35 or procedure reversal or conversion — was also higher after gastric banding at 48.3 percent than after RYGBP at 12.3 percent. They also found more long-term complications after gastric banding (41.6 compared to 19 percent) and more reoperations (26.7 compared to 12.7 percent).
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