“…Studies have demonstrated that patients in the postoperative period of bariatric surgery show abnormalities in bone mass, showing hypocalcemia in as many as 15% to 48% of patients [10,29,30]. Moreover, the deficient absorption of lipid-soluble vitamins (vitamins A, E, D, and K) aggravate the malabsorption of calcium [5,6,10,19,25,29,30]. The malabsorption of vitamin D interferes in the absorption of calcium and stimulates hyperparathyroidism, which in the long term leads to the occurrence of osteoporosis [11,29,31,32].…”