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Bariatric surgery may spur an unhealthy relationship with drinking in the years after surgery, a study of military veterans suggested.
In the retrospective analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), veterans who didn t have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol 2 years prior to laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy had a higher probability of unhealthy alcohol use 8 years after surgery compared with nonsurgical controls (7.9% vs 4.5%; difference 3.4%, 95% CI 1.8-5.0), reported Matthew Maciejewski, PhD, of Durham VA Medical Center in North Carolina, and colleagues.
Following a similar pattern, veterans with no alcohol use issues 2 years prior to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery saw a higher probability of developing an unhealthy relationship with drinking 8 years later versus nonsurgical controls (9.2% vs 4.4%, difference 4.8%, 95% CI 3.6-5.9), they stated in