Characterization of patients undergoing bariatric surgery in a private clinic of the city of Medellin, Colombia. 2009-2011: descriptive study
Caracterización de pacientes sometidos a cirugía bariátrica en una Clínica privada de la Ciudad de Medellín, Colombia,2009-2011: estudio descriptivo
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Objective: characterize the patients undergoing bariatric surgery in a private clinic of the city of Medellin, Colombia. Obesity is defined by the World Health Organization as a body mass index >30 Kg/m2, which has become one of the most important problems of public health around the world. Materials and Methods: the present research is a retrospective descriptive study with 1’122 clinical histories of patients undergoing bariatric surgery and without history of: constant consumption of alcohol or hepatitis. The statistical analysis was made in the program SPSS vr. 21, the qualitative variables were estimated through percentages and the quantitative were calculated though the average, standard deviation, and the minimum and maximum values. Results: In this study, the average age of this group was 40,9 ±11,9 years (range: 15-78), the 77,4% were men. 81% had bypass as surgery of choice, at the time of entry the 56,9% had obesity grade II, abdominal perimeter of these patients had an average of 119,5±17,5 cm, 274 records had a liver biopsy report (24,4%) of which the only 1,8% were normal and the 98,2% remaining had some fatty infiltration and other pathologic findings. Only 19,7% of patients routinely performed exercise. Conclusion: contrary to what was reported in the literature, it was found more percentage of obesity in men than in women. However the average age and the most frequent surgery behave similar to that described in previous works.
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