Obese patients are less likely to die after heart surgery than normal people

People with obesity have a lower risk of death than normal people after heart surgery is a medical problem causing a stir among medical practitioners around the globe.

According to the latest study by scientists at the University of Leicester, patients with obesity reduced their overall risk of dying after heart surgery compared to normal people. This finding is completely new, interesting and contrary to the advice, judging that now obese patients should lose weight before performing heart surgery.

Not only that, recently, the British Heart Foundation (BHF) also officially acknowledged that they were wrong before refusing heart surgery for obese patients. They said that people with obesity inherited many advantages during and after heart surgery compared to normal people - the Mirror page reported.

The results of the study from the University of Leicester scientists indicated that after heart surgery, up to 4.4% of people with normal weight died, of which light weight people were only 2.8% and people Heavy obesity only risk 2.7% of deaths. And more seriously, up to 8.5% of low birth weight people die after heart surgery. This is a very strange and interesting number.

' Before, obesity and heavy weight are one of the conditions that doctors often delay or refuse heart surgery, ' said the study's lead author Dr. Gavin Murphy in a statement.

To obtain this study, the scientists conducted an online medical survey of 401,227 heart surgery from 2002 to 2013 and they found that the number of people who died after heart surgery was very strongly related to the weight of patients after calculating other influencing factors such as age, lifestyle, other medical conditions .

A total of 11,511 died after heart surgery in which ordinary people had twice the risk of death compared to overweight and obese people, and low-birth-weight people had the highest risk of death.

In addition to this strangeness, the group of scientists pointed out that fat is the culprit that causes complications of blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease, however, with postoperative heart condition, fat This may be a factor that helps protect the body from many risk of death.

In addition, the team also looked at online health data of 557,720 people across Europe, the United States, and Asia and also produced similar results.

This research has just been published in Circulation Magazine.