Analysis of metabolic syndrome and clinic-epidemiological data of bariatric surgery patients

Abstract

Introduction: Obesity is an increasing illness all over the world that gets to people of all ages and brings serious consequences to the patient’s life quality, which may recur to bariatric surgery as a treatment. This pathology is an independent risk to other associated diseases, such as the metabolic syndrome, that may be defined as a group of risk factors interrelated, from metabolic origins, which directly contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease and/or type II diabetes. Purpose: This study aims to analyze the clinical, laboratory and anthropometric findings in patients submitted to bariatric surgery by Fobi-Capella technique in the Ophir Loyola Hospital, in the immediate preoperative period and 12 months after surgery. Methods: Analysis of medical records was conducted and the results analyzed statistically (ANOVA test) considering all significance level ≤ 5% of body mass index, weight, fasting glucose, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure. Conclusions: Most patients were women aged 30-40 years, with arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus as the main co-morbidities, all parameters showed significant improvement after one year of surgery, and also identified post-surgical complications such as hair loss, fatigue and incisional hernia.