Effects of long-term reducing gastroplasty roux-y on body weight and clinical metabolic comorbidities in a bariatric surgery service of a university hospital

Autor: Luciana d'Abreu Sarmento, Larissa Cohen, Fernanda Cristina Carvalho Mattos Magno, Antônio Augusto Peixoto de Souza, Eliane Lopes Rosado, Felipe Monnerat Marino Rosa, Cátia Ferreira da Silva, João Regis Ivar Carneiro
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome
ISSN: 1758-5996
DOI: 10.1186/1758-5996-7-s1-a154
Popis: Background Obesity is a major public health issue in Brazil and in the world, increasing the rate of mortality due to comorbidities like: type-2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), arterial hypertension (AH), dyslipidemias, among others. Conventional obesity treatments show little effect in the long term, leading to an increase in the search for bariatric surgery as an alternative for the control and healing of comorbidities.
Databáze: OpenAIRE