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ISSN - Electrónico: 2661-6947 / DOI: 10.36015 • LILACS BIREME (19784); LATINDEX (20666)
INTRODUCTION. Obesity, a world health public problem, with an increase in the younger people, is associated with some metabolic diseases, as arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia. It is proved that metabolic-bariatric surgery prevents any complications related with high levels of arterial pressure. The sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-Y bypass gastrectomy are effective in weight reduction and cardiovascular risk reduction in order to evidence. OBJECTIVE. Identify the benefits of bariatric surgery in patients with obesity and arterial hypertension. MATERIALS AND METHODS. Transversal descriptive
study, with data of clinical history of 155 obese patients that were under metabolic surgery with arterial hypertension, among all patients, 67 cases accomplished the appropriate profile for the investigation. The study was developed at the Carlos Andrade Marin Specialties Hospital, Quito; between February 2018 and June 2019. All the data was collected for variable operationalization and the data analysis was done on SPSS 25 software. RESULTS. Most patients with type II obesity were taking two different antihypertensive medicines. After a year of surgery, they reduce the weight about 28% from initial weight ant a reduction
in the number of antihypertensive medicines with the discontinuation of them about 21,05% (8; 38) with sleeve gastrectomy and 31% (9; 29) with gastric bypass, respectively. CONCLUSION. Metabolic/Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment in obese patients with arterial hypertension, this allows weight loss and also the number and doses of medicines in the future.
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