Resumen

SOGBE, Miguel Eduardo; DI FRISCO, Isberling Madeleine  y  DIAZ, Emilia. Bariatric Surgery: Physiological changes in the treatment of metabolic syndrome. Gen [online]. 2016, vol.70, n.3, pp.93-99. ISSN 2477-975X.

Bariatric surgery consists in a series of surgical procedures that act through the restriction of gastric capacity or partial food malabsortion due to various physiological modifications of incretin hormones, bile acids and autonomous system; whose main objective is to generate short and long term significant weight loss, achieving to reduce morbidities associated with Metabolic Syndrome (SM) and the increased risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM2), Hypertension (HTA), early lesions in target organs and others. Most of the benefits of bariatric surgery persist long term, this feature has allowed longitudinal studies looking at the decreased risk of metabolic diseases, cardiovascular risk reduction and overall mortality in morbidly obese. This review is an update of the supporting the benefits of CB as therapy in these patients because no other medical intervention is simultaneously performed many comorbidities.

Palabras clave : Bariatric surgery; metabolic syndrome; treatment; metabolic effects.

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