Key result
Bariatric surgery safely promotes fat loss and prevents life-threatening complications in the Saudi population.
Why the study?
Obesity in the Saudi population is associated with multiple long-term complications, and limited bariatric surgery studies have confirmed its effectiveness in this group.
This review highlights bariatric surgery as an effective and safe intervention for weight loss and complication prevention in severely obese patients in Saudi Arabia.
Obesity care should emphasize activity barriers; leaves open targeted adherence strategies in adults.
in the adult population. Obesity is connected with the future complications of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular, stroke, osteoarthritis, obstructive sleep apnea and liver diseases. Loosing of body fat is the only option to avoid obesity and this could be achieved with routine physical activity and diet modifications. Obesity subjects may fail to achieve the daily routine activities or insufficient activity may be involved and finally fail to lose the body fat after the medical course. Then these severe or morbidity obese can be lose with the existing surgery. Currently, Bariatric Surgery (BS) has become the active treatment for long-term weight loss. Various types (Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and duodenal switch and the jejunoileal bypass) of BS are performed on the gastrointestinal tract. Throughout the world population, BS has found to be safe in losing the weight and avoiding the future and long-term complications. The prevalence of overweight and obesity in Saudi Arabia is an issue in terms of incidence and health consequences. Maximum obesity studies involved in Saudi Arabia has proven to be develop the long-term complications in the future involving from child to morbid obesity. Limited bariatric studies carried out in the Saudi subjects confirmed as effective tool in lowering the body fat and avoiding the life-threatened complications of human diseases. So, this review recommends BS as effective and safe surgical treatment to lose body fat in the Saudi population. However, post-operative monitoring is mandatory to follow-up.
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May Al-Nbaheen (2020) conducted a review in Severe-morbid obesity. Bariatric Surgery was evaluated. Bariatric surgery is recommended as an effective and safe surgical treatment to lose body fat and avoid life-threatening complications in the Saudi population.
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