BackgroundFew studies evaluated the association between nutritional disorders, quality of
life and weight loss in patients undergoing bariatric surgery.AimTo identify nutritional changes in patients undergoing bariatric surgery and
correlate them with weight loss, control of comorbidities and quality of life.
MethodA prospective cohort, analytical and descriptive study involving 59 patients
undergoing bariatric surgery was done. Data were collected preoperatively at three
and six months postoperatively, evaluating nutritional aspects and outcomes using
BAROS questionnaire. The data had a confidence interval of 95%.ResultsThe majority of patients was composed of women, 47 (79.7%), with 55.9% of the
series with BMI between 40 to 49.9 kg/m². In the sixth month after surgery scores
of quality of life were significantly higher than preoperatively (p<0.05) and
27 (67.5 %) patients had comorbidities resolved, 48 (81.3 %) presented BAROS
scores of very good or excellent. After three and six months of surgery 16 and 23
presented some nutritional disorder, respectively. There was no relationship
between the loss of excess weight and quality of life among patients with or
without nutritional disorders.ConclusionsNutritional disorders are uncommon in the early postoperative period and, when
present, have little or no influence on quality of life and loss of excess
weight.