Cost-effectiveness of bariatric surgery: should it be universally available?

Autor: Chang SH; Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. changsh@wudosis.wustl.edu, Stoll CR, Colditz GA
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Maturitas [Maturitas] 2011 Jul; Vol. 69 (3), pp. 230-8. Date of Electronic Publication: 2011 May 14.
DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2011.04.007
Abstrakt: This paper is the first to conduct cost-effectiveness analyses of bariatric surgery comparing obese patients with obesity-related diseases to obese people without comorbidities across different BMI categories, using the meta-analysis results of surgery outcomes for our effectiveness inputs. We find that surgery treatment is in general cost-effective for people whose BMI is greater than 35 kg/m(2) with or without obesity-related comorbidities, and it is even cost-saving for super obese (BMI ≥ 50 kg/m(2)) with obesity-related comorbidities. Our results also suggest that surgery can be cost-effective for the mildly obese (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m(2)). The bottom line is that bariatric surgery should be universally available to all classes of obese people.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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