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Improvements in Health-Related Quality of Life and Pain: A Cohort Study in Obese Patients After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy

  • JOURNAL OF LAPAROENDOSCOPIC & ADVANCED SURGICAL TECHNIQUES
  • Autores
    Gallart-Aragon, T; Fernandez-Lao, C; Galiano-Castillo, N; Cantarero-Villanueva, I; Lozano-Lozano, M; Arroyo-Morales, M
  • Año Publicación
    2018
  • Volumen
    28
  • Número
    1
  • Pág. Inicio
    53
  • Pág. Fin
    57
  • Pág. Fin
    53

Objective: The principal aim of the study was to investigate the effect of the sleeve gastrectomy (SG) in the quality of life (QoL) and pain in a population of morbidly obese patients. Methods: Seventy-two SG patients were assessed in this descriptive observational study, before the surgery and 6 months after that. We evaluated health-related QoL (Gastrointestinal Quality of Life Index [GIQLI]) and pain (spontaneous low back pain by Numerical Point Rate Scale [NPRS] and pressure pain thresholds [PPTs]). Results: The results of the analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed significant improvements in nearly all of the subscales of GIQLI questionnaire after 6 months: gastrointestinal symptoms (P = .01), physical well-being (P < .001), social well-being (P = .03), and total GIQLI score (P < .001), but not for the emotional condition (P = .20). Patients also had improvements in spontaneous low back pain (P = .002), but not in the PPTs in all the body areas explored, including the cervical area, low back, and hands (P > .05). Conclusion: Patients receiving SG improved their health-related QoL and low back pain 6 months after the intervention, but this improvement was not so important for pressure pain thresholds in different body areas.


Web financiada por la Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Conocimiento, Investigación y Universidades, Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER), proyecto SOMM17/6107/UG

Web financiada por la Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Conocimiento, Investigación y Universidades, Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER), proyecto SOMM17/6107/UGR