Is gastric bypass surgery more suitable for men or women?

Is gastric bypass surgery more suitable for men or women?

Gastric bypass surgery is suitable for both men and women. I would say ten years ago about 90% of my patients were women. Now it's probably about 80% who are women. More men are coming to see that their health risks are tremendous and they need to lose weight. If you look out in society an overweight woman is much less accepted than an overweight man. And I think that's what has influenced the rates of surgery that these patients want to have. I don't know what the percentage of men in the population are more than a hundred pounds overweight over women. I've never seen a study of that sort, but definitely the people who have the surgery are mostly women.