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01-02-2018 | Letter to the Editor
Shift Towards Older Bariatric Patients
Published in: Obesity Surgery | Issue 2/2018
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There is an ongoing shift in the age distribution of bariatric patients. This assumption was confirmed in a large bariatric center with a retrospective analysis of primary operations. Before 2008, 28% of the patients were above 45 years old (Fig. 1). This portion increased to a current 50%.
Fig. 1
Age distribution of primary bariatric procedures (n = 4832) in a large bariatric center in the Netherlands. Pre 2008 is composed of all procedures ten years prior to 2008. Before 2008, around 28% of the patients were older than 45 years old. Over the next decade, this increased to almost 50% of the patients. A trend line was plotted using Microsoft Excel 2010 (R2 = 0.8329)
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