Outpatient Screening of Health Status Among Postbariatric Patients during the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Out of concern that COVID19 has created a situation in which at-risk patients are confined with little or no access to face-to-face health care, we performed an out-of-hospital screening of health status and lifestyle habits remotely among patients who recently underwent bariatric surgery, a condition that requires systematic health care follow-up to ensure the safety and the benefits of the surgical procedure. Reference values were < 120 mmHg and/or < 80 mmHg for systolic and diastolic blood pressure; < 80 cm and < 94 cm for waist circumference for men and women, respectively; 40 mg/dL, < 129 mg/dL, and < 190 mg/dL for triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein, low-density lipoprotein, and total cholesterol, respectively; and < 5.0 mg/dL for CRP. Through phone calls, participants responded to a questionnaire about adherence to daily vitamin/mineral supplementation, binge eating (1), depression symptoms (2), anxiety (3), health-related quality of life (4), and physical activity level (5).