Biochemical and anthropometric changes in patients undergoing bariatric surgery in a referral hospital, Paraguay

Abstract

Introduction: bariatric surgery constitutes an alternative treatment for obesity, being the onethatpresents the bestresults in weightloss and remission of comorbidities and, as a result, anincrease in the quality of life in the longterm.
Objective: to determine the biochemical and anthropometric changes in patients with obesity under going bariatric surgery at the Hospital General de Luque during the period 2018-2023.
Methodology: descriptive observational study, with secondary data collected from the clinical records of patients undergoing bariatric surgery during the period 2018-2023. Non-probabilistic sampling of consecutive cases. Demographic, clinical, biochemical and anthropometric data were collected before and after (6 months) surgery. They were analyzed in SPSS version 23.
Results: twenty-two clinical records wereincluded, 86.4 % (n = 19) were female, the mean age was 43 years. Among the clinical characteristics, the average age at onset of overweight was 24.6±8.2 years, the main reasons for weight gain being changes in physicalactivity (36.4 %) and stress (31.8 %). In the biochemical parameters, a significant difference was found with adecrease in the values of glucose, total cholesterol, LDL and triglycerides (p<0.05). Accordingto the bodymass index before bariatric surgery, 90.2 % (n = 20) had class III obesity, at 6 months after surgery 50 % had class I, therefore a significant difference was found.
Conclusion: changes in anthropometric and clinical parameters were observed in patients submitted to bariatric surgery.