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The point about obesity-related comorbidities is very good! Very fat people tend to be very sick -- fat-acceptance aside, obesity is really a disease state, on so many levels.

That being said, here are the biggest "real" risks of the sleeve:

1. Patient non-compliance. The doctor said only slushy food until 3 weeks out, but you knew that didn't matter; your cousin had the sleeve and she was eating a whole pizza at 3 weeks, so you know better than your stuffy old doctor. Next stop: the emergency room!
   
2. Facilities! I hate to say it, but you are at more risk from the cleaning staff than the surgical staff; if you get a hospital-acquired infection, you're in trouble. And even if there ARE complications during surgery, it's more likely to be anesthesia-related than surgery-related.
   
3. Plain old bad luck: you're one of those higher risk patients, or you just have a common anatomic abnormality. It's a roll of the dice -- sure, a doctor with more sleeves performed will see more of the common abnormalities, but nobody's seen and dealt with them all.
   

You just can't protect against those three, and they are by far the greatest risks to you during and immediately following your sleeve surgery.