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John Morton, MD, discusses the impact of gastric bypass on aging

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ATLANTA — In this video, John Morton, MD, FASMBS, director of bariatric surgery at Stanford University and president-elect of the ASMBS, discusses his study on the impact of gastric bypass on the aging process, presented at Obesity Week 2013. The study was the first to assess the effect of surgical weight loss on aging.

Researchers examined telomeres — genetic markers of aging — in approximately 50 patients before and after undergoing gastric bypass. Morton said that, in addition to the expected improvements in weight, diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors, patients with high levels of C-reactive protein or particularly poor CV risk factor profiles also experienced improvements in telomere length, indicating benefits from the procedure for the aging process. Telomere length improvement correlated to improvements in both CRP and HDL.