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Health-related quality of life does not vary among patients seeking different surgical procedures to assist with weight loss. | LitMetric

Background: Improvement in quality of life (QOL) is 1 of the goals of bariatric procedures. We hypothesized that greater impairment of QOL would encourage the choice of more invasive surgical procedures. Our study was performed at a university hospital weight loss surgical center in the United States.

Methods: Patients qualifying for weight loss surgery, who at their surgical consultation had chosen their surgical option and signed an informed consent form, were asked to complete 3 QOL forms--the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 36-item Health Survey, the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Impact of Weight on Quality of Life-Lite. Analysis of variance was used to compare the surgery types with the demographics, QOL, and depression.

Results: A total of 367 patients, 114 men (31.1%) and 253 women (68.75), completed the QOL forms at their surgical consultation. Of these 367 patients, 68.9% elected gastric bypass (GB), 15% chose biliopancreatic diversion/duodenal switch (BPD/DS), and 16.1% chose adjustable gastric banding (AGB). The mean patient age was 42.5 ± 10.7 years (P = NS), with no differences in gender distribution. The body mass index was 51.9 kg/m(2) for the BPD/DS group, greater than that for the GB group (45.9 kg/m(2)) or AGB group (44.3 kg/m(2); P < .0001). No significant differences were found in the Beck Depression Inventory score among the 3 groups (GB 14.6 ± 9.6, AGB 10.8 ± 8.2, and BPD/DS 13.5 ± 7.3). For the Short Form 36-item Health Survey, only the physical component score was different for the AGB group compared with the BPD/DS group (GB 49.2 ± 25.1, BPD/DS 42.8 ± 26.4, and AGB 52.3 ± 31.7; P = .05). For the Impact of Weight on Quality of Life-Lite, all differences were nonsignificant. The total score was 44.1 ± 20.7, 44.4 ± 21.1, and 52.2 ± 19.6 for the GB, BPD/DS, and AGB groups, respectively.

Conclusion: Patients requesting a weight loss procedure reported moderate to severe impairments in QOL and mood dysphoria compared with the community norms. However, the patients choosing from the 3 procedures studied scored similarly on the health-related QOL assessments.

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