(HealthDay News) -- A new study suggests that liposuction -- which  plastic surgeons often use to sculpt the bodies of people who aren't  extremely overweight -- can lower levels of a type of blood fat called  triglycerides.
"High triglyceride levels are known to be  associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease," study  author Dr. Eric Swanson, a plastic surgeon, said in a news release from  the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. "The decrease in these levels  after liposuction was surprisingly dramatic, and revealed that the  permanent removal of excess fat cells by liposuction has a major impact  on circulating levels of triglycerides."
The research doesn't  definitively prove that liposuction caused levels to drop, however, and  an outside researcher questioned the value of the study.
The  study looked at 270 women and 52 men who underwent either liposuction, a  tummy tuck (known as an abdominoplasty), or both. On average, the  patients were slightly overweight, although they ranged from nearly  underweight to morbidly obese. Read more...
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