-Aishila Kar, Amity University Kolkata
Bariatric surgery is completed to assist you to lose excess weight and reduce your risk of potentially hazardous weight-related health issues. This surgery is usually done only after you’ve tried to lose weight by improving your diet and exercise habits. And it becomes more effective after a total weight loss of 25%.
A total of 430 members with a heavyweight who underwent bariatric surgery were enlisted. Members were evaluated for changes in anthropometric parameters, metabolic indexes, MetS components and medications before and 1 year after surgery. The prevalence of MetS is 92.3% (397) at the beginning. A year after bariatric surgery, 337 members (84.9%) were in MetS remission. The multivariate-adjusted ORs were 1.16 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.10–1.22) for every 1% increase in %TWL for MetS remission and 1.18 (95% CI 1.11–1.25) for every 5% increase in %EWL. Receiver operating curve (ROC)study convey that the %TWL was more predictive than the %EWL (AUC%TWL vs. AUC%EWL, 0.749 vs. 0.700, p = 0.023). The Youden index indicated that the optimal %TWL cutoff point to spot MetS remission was 25%.
For good responders to bariatric surgery must be characterized as showing the total percentage of weight loss less than equals 25% (%TWL ≥ 25%).
Source: Tu, Y., Pan, Y., Han, J. et al. A total weight loss of 25% shows better predictivity in evaluating the efficiency of bariatric surgery. Int J Obes (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-020-00690-5
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