Figure 3: Weight Changes among Patients in the SOS Study over a 10-Year Period.

All data are for patients who completed 10 years of the study. The mean weight change in the group of surgically treated patients was almost identical to that in the subgroup of patients who had vertical banded gastroplasty. The vertical bars show the 95% confidence intervals.

(Copyright © 2004 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved. Sjostrom L, Kindroos AK, Peltonen M, Torgerson J, Bouchard C, Carlsson B et al. Lifestyle, diabetes, and cardiovascular risk factors 10 years after bariatric surgery. New Eng J Med 2004; 351:2683-2693).