Quality of life and prevalence of osteoarticular pain in patients submitted to bariatric surgery

Autor: Rute Grans, Cyntia Francesca Warth, José Francisco de Mattos Farah, Debora Pastore Bassitt
Jazyk: English<br />Portuguese
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Zdroj: Einstein (São Paulo), Vol 10, Iss 4, Pp 415-421
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1679-4508
2317-6385
DOI: 10.1590/S1679-45082012000400004
Popis: OBJECTIVE: To analyze quality of life and observe the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain in patients submitted to bariatric surgery. METHODS: A prospective, observational and comparative study with 26 individuals aged 18 to 60 years, 25 women, which included two evaluations, one preoperative and the other approximately 42 months after surgery. The Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and the Human Body Diagram with Visual Analogue Scale were employed. RESULTS: The individual samples showed grade III obesity, with a predominance of postoperative overweight, hypertension and diabetes in 65.4% and 42.3% of the samples, with remission of hypertension in 50% and of diabetes mellitus in 38.5% (p
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