Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Short-term Weight Loss in a Single Italian Institution

Italy was the first European country to have a major outbreak of COVID-19. Bariatric procedures were stopped and telemedicine had to be implemented. A large percentage of patients struggled to follow postoperative diet and to start physical activity due to social restrictions. We have compared short...

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Autores principales: Vitiello, Antonio, Berardi, Giovanna, Velotti, Nunzio, Schiavone, Vincenzo, Musella, Mario
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7957453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33721193
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11695-021-05343-8
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author Vitiello, Antonio
Berardi, Giovanna
Velotti, Nunzio
Schiavone, Vincenzo
Musella, Mario
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description Italy was the first European country to have a major outbreak of COVID-19. Bariatric procedures were stopped and telemedicine had to be implemented. A large percentage of patients struggled to follow postoperative diet and to start physical activity due to social restrictions. We have compared short-term outcomes of patients who had bariatric procedures prior to lockdown with subjects that had undergone obesity surgery in the same period of the previous year at our institution. A total number of 63 patients were included in this study. Weight loss at 1, 3 and 6 postoperative months in the 2019 group was significantly higher at any point of follow-up when compared to 2020. Social limitations and nonattendance of clinical appointments may have compromised early results. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT: [Image: see text]
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spelling pubmed-79574532021-03-15 Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Short-term Weight Loss in a Single Italian Institution Vitiello, Antonio Berardi, Giovanna Velotti, Nunzio Schiavone, Vincenzo Musella, Mario Obes Surg Brief Communication Italy was the first European country to have a major outbreak of COVID-19. Bariatric procedures were stopped and telemedicine had to be implemented. A large percentage of patients struggled to follow postoperative diet and to start physical activity due to social restrictions. We have compared short-term outcomes of patients who had bariatric procedures prior to lockdown with subjects that had undergone obesity surgery in the same period of the previous year at our institution. A total number of 63 patients were included in this study. Weight loss at 1, 3 and 6 postoperative months in the 2019 group was significantly higher at any point of follow-up when compared to 2020. Social limitations and nonattendance of clinical appointments may have compromised early results. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT: [Image: see text] Springer US 2021-03-15 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7957453/ /pubmed/33721193 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11695-021-05343-8 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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