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| Title |
Impact of 6 months of treatment with intragastric balloon on body fat and quality of life in obese individuals with metabolic syndrome
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| Published in |
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, October 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12955-017-0790-x |
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| Authors |
Erika Paniago Guedes, Eduardo Madeira, Thiago Thomaz Mafort, Miguel Madeira, Rodrigo Oliveira Moreira, Laura Maria Carvalho de Mendonça, Amélio Fernando de Godoy-Matos, Agnaldo José Lopes, Maria Lucia Fleiuss Farias |
| Abstract |
Obesity is a worldwide public health issue with a negative impact on quality of life. Different weight loss interventions have demonstrated improvements in quality of life. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of 6 months of treatment with an intragastric balloon (IGB) on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and its relation to changes in body fat in obese individuals with metabolic syndrome (MS). Fifty obese patients with MS aged 18-50 were selected for treatment with IGB for 6 months. Body fat was assessed with anthropometric measures and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) at baseline and after removal of the IGB. HRQOL was evaluated with the short form of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) at baseline and soon after removal of the IGB. Thirty-nine patients completed the study. After 6 months, there was a significant improvement in quality of life (p = 0.0009) and health (p < 0.0001) perceptions, and in the Physical (p = 0.001), Psychological (p = 0.031), and Environmental domains (p = 0.0071). Anthropometric measures and total fat determined by DXA were directly and significantly related to an improvement in general aspects of quality of life. The decrease in the percentage of total fat was the parameter that better correlated with improvements in quality of life perception after regression (p = 0.032). In obese individuals with MS, weight loss parameters were associated with short-term improvements in HRQOL after 6 months of treatment with IGB. However, only total fat was independently related to HRQOL perception. ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01598233 . |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 56 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 10 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 7% |
| Lecturer | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 7 | 13% |
| Unknown | 27 | 48% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 9 | 16% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 5% |
| Unknown | 28 | 50% |
Attention Score in Context
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#17,918,662
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#1,512
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#37
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