VITAMIN D LEVELS AND LIPID PROFILE IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING BARIATRIC SURGERY.

Background: Vitamin, mineral, and metabolic deficiencies occur in the postoperative period of bariatric surgery, in the short and long term, and are worrisome intercurrences.

Aims: To evaluate the association of serum vitamin D levels with the lipid profile in obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery.

Methods: Case series of patients assisted from 2010 to 2018, in a private hospital of medium and high complexity, who underwent bariatric surgery using sleeve gastrectomy or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass techniques, monitored by the same surgeon.

Excess Weight among Survivors of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Survivors Treated at a Center in Northeast Brazil.

Therapeutic advances in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have increased the number of survivors but have promoted the development of long-term side effects, the best documented of which is obesity. The present retrospective case series analyzed data collected at diagnosis, end of treatment, and last follow-up visit of 210 ALL survivors treated between August 2005 and October 2014. Clinical and anthropometric data were collected from medical records.