The study measured values were collected during 2010 and 1999.

"11% of black men and twenty-two percent of black women compared with 8 percent of white men and 12 percent of white women, were targeted for bariatric surgery," the report on the survey results said have. "However, women and men of eligible white instant slim many times,. Who underwent bariatric surgery than men and black women"

Why blacks do you get a bariatric surgery?

30% of the Caucasian American and about 50 percent of blacks are classified as obese.

Co-author of the study theorized to undergo surgery more often part of the contradiction of health insurance coverage for whites. For holding insurance, about 70 percent of Caucasian male and female were studied for 50% of men and lida daidaihua black women. About 70 percent of women and black men who had received the treatment had been using insurance to pay for it.

Still, the only access to health insurance explained the part of the discrepancy. Factor of "race" and culture were raised as a barrier potential of weight loss treatment.