Effectiveness and Safety of Bariatric Surgery in the Public Healthcare System in Brazil: Real-World Evidence from a High-Volume Obesity Surgery Center
Background This study aimed to evaluate the waiting time, safety, and effectiveness of bariatric surgery based on real-world data. Methods This is a noninterventional, noncomparative, and retrospective study with 300 morbidly obese patients who had undergone open Roux-en-Y surgery. Results The proce...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Obesity surgery 2017-02, Vol.27 (2), p.536-540 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Background
This study aimed to evaluate the waiting time, safety, and effectiveness of bariatric surgery based on real-world data.
Methods
This is a noninterventional, noncomparative, and retrospective study with 300 morbidly obese patients who had undergone open Roux-en-Y surgery.
Results
The procedure was found to be very safe, with low rates of overall complications (10.7%). Approximately 48.4% of the patients had reached a BMI 40 mg/kg
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). Comorbidity resolution was over 90% for all conditions, except for cardiovascular disease, which showed a 40% resolution. The mean number of drugs taken also decreased at 12 months after surgery.
Conclusions
Bariatric surgery was found to be effective in weight reduction and in the resolution of comorbidities. |
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ISSN: | 0960-8923 1708-0428 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11695-016-2439-y |