Remission and Relapse of Hypertension After Bariatric Surgery: A Retrospective Study on Long-Term Outcomes.

ABSTRACT: To compare hypertension remission and relapse after bariatric surgery compared with usual care.

Background

The effect of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy on hypertension remission and relapse has not been studied in large, multicenter studies over long periods and using clinical blood pressure (BP) measurements.

Methods

This retrospective cohort study was set in Kaiser Permanente Washington, Northern California, and Southern California. Participants included 9432 patients with hypertension 21-65 years old who underwent bariatric surgery during 2005-2015 and 66,651 nonsurgical controls matched on an index date on study site, age, sex, race/ethnicity, body mass index, comorbidity burden, diabetes status, diastolic and systolic BP, and number of antihypertensive m

SUBMITTER: Fisher DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10013161 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature