Revista Española de Nutrición Humana y Dietética (Nov 2013)

Dietary intake in the postoperative bariatric surgery at a university hospital in Rio de Janeiro

  • Louise Crovesy-de-Oliveira,
  • Gigliane Cosendey-Menegati,
  • Eliane Lopes-Rosado

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14306/renhyd.18.1.38
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 1

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Introduction: bariatric surgery is a treatment for morbid obesity that besides result in high weight loss promotes improvements in laboratory tests and in the pressure reduction. However the surgery can cause bad effects as deficiency some nutrients. This fact become more important evaluates the adequacy of dietary intake of these patients. The objective this study was evaluates the adequacy dietetic of patients after bariatric surgery. Material and methods: we select forty women who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric and carried evaluation anthropometric and dietetic. The dietary evaluate was compared with the daily consumption requirement and food pyramid for these patients. Results: forty women with 43.1 ± 9.96 years, obesity and very high risk for metabolic complications associate with obesity, and with acceptation of supplementation (95%) participated this study. The majority of women consumed group’s foods “high-calorie foods, fats and sweets are energy-dense foods” and showed high intake of foods groups “grains and cereals” and “high-fiber, low-calorie foods”. Dietary intake was low-calorie (1342.50 ± 474.06 Kcal), adequate in protein (22.10 ± 6.94%), carbohydrate (50.74 ± 10.96%), lipid (26.14 ± 7.17%), saturated fatty acids (8.69 ± 2.74%) and polyunsaturated fatty acids (8.93 ± 3.51%) and low-monounsaturated fatty acids (4.13 ± 1.78%) and fibers (17.02 ± 10.64 g). Conclusions: nutritional habits of women showed inadequacy, these results reinforce the importance of nutritional accompanying in the late postoperative bariatric surgery.

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