INCIDENCE OF BARIATRIC SURGERY AMONG SAUDI POPULATION, ACROSS SECTIONAL STUDY.
Sultan T. Almutrafi
, Sultan I. Almalik
, Waleed M. Almejlad Musaed Alkhuraisi Abdulraouf Almajhad
and Yazid M. Alotaibi.
- Qassim university, college of medicine- K.S.A.
- Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz university, college of medicine.
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Bariatric surgery is a common operation done among Saudis. Numbers of patients underwent for this surgery is still increasing which give us a hint of people affecting by obesity in our society. In our study, will know what is the peak age people affecting by obesity and did this operation, percentage of these patient had travel to other country to do it. In this study we are going to know also what is the percentage of people who underwent for this surgery without indication according to American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. It expected that, most of them do not know what are the indication and done it without indication. We hope that by reading of this study, people know better about this surgery including indications.
[Sultan T. Almutrafi, Sultan I. Almalik, Waleed M. Almejlad Musaed Alkhuraisi Abdulraouf Almajhad and Yazid M. Alotaibi. (2016); INCIDENCE OF BARIATRIC SURGERY AMONG SAUDI POPULATION, ACROSS SECTIONAL STUDY. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 4 (Oct). 351-355] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
