Impacts of bariatric surgery in health outcomes and health care costs in Brazil: Interrupted time series analysis of multi-panel data

Artigo de periódico

2022

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Nome da publicação: Impacts of bariatric surgery in health outcomes and health care costs in Brazil: Interrupted time series analysis of multi-panel data

Authors: José Antonio Orellana Turri, Nana Kwame Anokye, Lionai Lima Dos Santos, José Maria Soares Júnior, Edmund Chada Baracat, Marco Aurélio Santo, Flavia Mori Sarti

Source: BMC Health Services Research

Published in: 2022

File type: Artigo de periódico

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Summary

The increasing burden of obesity generates significant socioeconomic impacts for individuals, populations, and national health systems worldwide. The literature on impacts and cost-effectiveness of obesity-related interventions for prevention and treatment of moderate to severe obesity indicate that bariatric surgery presents high costs associated with high effectiveness in improving health status referring to certain outcomes; however, there is a lack of robust evidence at an individual-level estimation of its impacts on multiple health outcomes related to obesity comorbidities. Trends multiple health outcomes showed statistically significant improvements in patients' health status post-intervention compared to trends pre-intervention, resulting in reduced direct health care costs and the burden of obesity.