Long-term mortality and incidence of cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes in diabetic and nondiabetic obese patients undergoing gastric banding: a controlled study

Table 3 Causes of death in surgery versus no surgery patients

Group	Surgery	No-surgery	Significance, p
CVD causes (ICD I00–I98)	5	22	0.0014
Total non-CVD causes	7	43	0.0007
Neoplasia (ICD C00–D49)	7	33	0.0116
Liver diseases (ICD K00–K92)		4
Lung diseases (ICD J00–J98)		3
Infection (ICD A00–B99)		3
Total	12	65	0.0001

No significant differences were found when subdividing diabetic and nondiabetic patients in surgery versus no-surgery patients

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