Global Journal of Medical Research, I: Surgeries and Cardiovascular System, Volume 22 Issue 2

© 2022. Mônica Fernandez, Elias Jirjoss Ilias, Wilson Rodrigues de Freitas Junior, Mônica de Aguiar Medeiros, Ana Carolina Marchiori Souza, Nickolas Nogueira Nunes, Norma Oliveira da Silva & Patrícia Colombo-Souza. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Determinant Factors and Possible Causes Associated with the Success or Failure of Loss of Excess Weight (%Pep) in Patients Submitted to Bariatric Surgery By Mônica Fernandez, Elias Jirjoss Ilias, Wilson Rodrigues de Freitas Junior, Mônica de Aguiar Medeiros, Ana Carolina Marchiori Souza, Nickolas Nogueira Nunes, Norma Oliveira da Silva & Patrícia Colombo-Souza Abstract- Objective: To know the reasons for the success or failure of excess weight loss in patients undergoing bariatric surgery, and its association with surgical time, quality of food consumption and physical activity. Method: Female patients were evaluated, with surgical time of 2 -7 years, older than 18 years, without comorbidities seen at a Public Hospital in São Paulo. As a success criterion for surgery, the value of the percentage of excess weight loss (% PEP) greater than or equal to 50. For possible causes of failure, an analysis of the frequency of qualitative consumption of food groups was carried out according to the Fisher test. and for the analysis of the practice of physical activity, the Chi-square test was used. Keywords: bariatric surgery, weight loss, morbid obesity, physical activity. GJMR-I Classification: NLMC Code: WJ768 DeterminantFactorsandPossibleCausesAssociatedwiththeSuccessorFailureofLossofExcessWeightPepinPatientsSubmittedtoBariatricSurgery Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: Global Journal of Medical Research: I Surgeries and Cardiovascular System Volume 22 Issue 2 Version 1.0 Year 2022 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-4618 & Print ISSN: 0975-5888