Bariatric surgery can help obese patients with hypertension to reduce the number of medications or even achieve remission, according to a new clinical trial published in Circulation.
Within a year, half of the study participants who underwent gastric bypass surgery no longer required antihypertensive medications, whereas none of the control participants who received only medical therapy achieved remission (Circulation 2017 Nov 13. [Epub ahead of print]).
After surgery, about