Obesity Abstracts

Post bariatric surgery care within the NHS is currently for 2 years. Post bariatric surgery hypoglycaemia (PBSH) can occur many years following surgery. The true prevalence of symptomatic PBSH is difficult to establish given variable recording and high median time to first event following surgery. Screening post-operative patients reveals high rates of asymptomatic hypoglycaemia of uncertain significance. The numbers of symptomatic patients fulfilling Whipple’s triad is s...

Introduction: Adults living in the most deprived areas of England are more likely to have obesity. However, it is not clear whether social deprivation has an impact on accessing and the outcomes of bariatric surgery. The aim of our study was to explore the effect of indices of deprivation on access to bariatric surgery and its outcomes.Methods: Cross-sectional prospective evaluation in a single centre in England of all patients who underwent primary bari...