Obesity is a chronic disease of multifactorial origin, which can lead to the appearance
of other diseases. In the context of severe obesity, conservative treatments have very
little significant results in relation to weight loss, so that surgical intervention has
become the main means for treating and controlling severe obesity and restoring
health status. However, eventually, the postsurgical course with unwanted
gastrointestinal events. Thus, the objective of this study is to identify the correlation
between the amount and time of meals associated with the presence of
gastrointestinal signs in patients with more than 24 months of bariatric surgery. To
this end, a crosssectional, descriptive and analytical study was carried out with
women, aged between 18 and 59 years, who underwent bariatric surgery, using the
RYGB or Vertical Gastrectomy method as surgical techniques, for at least 24 months
in the period in which it was performed. up data collection. A questionnaire was used
during the consultations, the data were tabulated using the Microsoft Office Excel
2010 software. For statistical analysis, the Statistical Package for Social Science
(SPSS) software, version 24.0 was used. The descriptive results were expressed in
measures of central tendency and dispersion, the KolmogorovSmirnov normality test
was applied to verify the sample distribution. Bivariate correlations were performed
using Spearman's correlation test, where an error of 5% was assigned. The collected
data indicate that most of the sample had dumping syndrome as well as food
intolerance, as for the gastrointestinal symptoms it was evidenced that the most
referred were nausea, vomiting and distended abdomen, there was also an inverse
correlation between dysphagia and dyspepsia and meal time and inverse correlation
between number of meals and vomiting, in relation to anthropometry, a direct
correlation was identified between the number of meals eaten and loss of excess
weight, and an inverse correlation between the number of meals eaten and weight
regain. Given the relevance of surgical intervention for coping with severe obesity,
the importance of investigating the symptoms associated with bariatric surgery, which
may affect the patient's quality of life and nutritional status after the surgical
procedure, is highlighted.
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