Surgery decreases long-term mortality, morbidity, and health care use in morbidly obese patients.

By A. Tsai, T. Wadden. Annals of Surgery, 2005

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Morbidity and mortality associated with obesity. (2017, background): “6 years, reported that among patients who had undergone gastric bypass surgery, the rate of death due to any cause decreased by 89% compared with control subjects (116).”
Meta-Analysis: Surgical Treatment of Obesity (2005, positive): “As our paper was being revised, a new matched cohort study by Christou and colleagues (44) was published that compared 1035 patients undergoing bariatric surgery (mean age, 45 years; 66% women; initial BMI, 50 kg/m(2)) with 5746 controls matched on 3 variables: first diagnosis of morbid obesity, age”