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Weight-loss surgery boosts survival rate (AP)

Herb Olitsky, a 53-year-old business owner from New York City, walks across Manhattan's 47th Street, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007. Olitsky, who stands 5 feet 8 inches tall and underwent stomach-stapling surgery in 1999 and went from 520 pounds to his current weight of 160, credits his improved lifestyle to gastric bypass. The first long-term studies of stomach stapling and other radical obesity treatments show that they not only lead to lasting weight loss but also dramatically improve survival. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - The first long-term studies of stomach stapling and other radical obesity treatments show that they not only lead to lasting weight loss but also dramatically improve survival. The results are expected to lead to more such operations, possibly for less severely obese people, too.


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