Five-Year Outcomes After Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy for Severe Obesity: A Prospective Cohort Study

Abstract

The majority of VSG patients maintained successful weight loss and improvement of T2DM, hypertension and HRQOL at 5 years. Preventing weight regain and GERD are important considerations with this procedure.

Generic Health-Related Quality of Life May Not Be Associated with Weight Loss 4 Years After Bariatric Surgery: a Cross-Sectional Study

“…The lack of associations between weight loss and generic HRQoL is consistent with prior published research [15,18,19]. Flølo et al [18] demonstrated a relatively high percentage (39%) of weight regain and yet no significant association to decreased generic HRQoL in a study of 168 patients 5 years after sleeve gastrectomy.…”

“…The lack of associations between weight loss and generic HRQoL is consistent with prior published research [15,18,19]. Flølo et al [18] demonstrated a relatively high percentage (39%) of weight regain and yet no significant association to decreased generic HRQoL in a study of 168 patients 5 years after sleeve gastrectomy. Our study did reveal an association between generic HRQoL and socioeconomic factors, which may point to the importance of factors, such as marriage/cohabitation [23] and employment status [19,40,41], on general well-being and HRQoL among bariatric surgery patients.…”

“…Supporting IFSO's statement there is considerable evidence demonstrating a relationship between weight loss and improvement of HRQoL [11,21,22]. On the other hand, studies have also reported improvement in HRQoL with no association to weight loss [15,18,19,23] and stable HRQoL despite weight gain [11]. Thus, factors other than weight loss may influence HRQoL after bariatric surgery.…”

“…HRQoL is a complex multidimensional construct of an individual's perception of health and well-being and is measured through generic and disease-specific questionnaires. Bariatric surgery is associated with improved HRQoL in both the short- [8,[13][14][15] and long-term [9,11,[16][17][18][19].…”

Quality of Life 10 Years after Sleeve Gastrectomy: A Multicenter Study

“…Flølo et al [18] used the SF36 for SG patients postoperatively at 5 years. They summarized the results in 2 groups of physical and mental components and found that the scores of both significantly improved when compared to a cohort of preoperative patients.…”