Table 3 Primary surgery: obesity-related disease and gender
From: Results from the first Kuwait National Bariatric Surgery Report
Male | Female rates | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No | Yes | Unspecified | No | Yes | Unspecified | Male | Female | |
Back or leg pain | 505 | 160 | 43 | 1413 | 443 | 120 | 24.1% | 23.9% |
Depression | 663 | 4 | 41 | 1918 | 15 | 43 | 0.6% | 0.8% |
Type 2 diabetes | 573 | 112 | 23 | 1677 | 235 | 64 | 16.4% | 12.3% |
Increased risk of DVT or PE | 646 | 46 | 16 | 1777 | 163 | 36 | 6.6% | 8.4% |
Poor functional status | 63 | 621 | 24 | 180 | 1709 | 87 | 90.8% | 90.5% |
GERD | 559 | 140 | 9 | 1699 | 261 | 16 | 20.0% | 13.3% |
Hypertension | 524 | 172 | 12 | 1615 | 313 | 48 | 24.7% | 16.2% |
Dyslipidaemia | 511 | 145 | 52 | 1450 | 365 | 161 | 22.1% | 20.1% |
Liver disease | 213 | 414 | 81 | 661 | 995 | 320 | 66.0% | 60.1% |
Sleep apnea | 523 | 120 | 65 | 1667 | 106 | 203 | 18.7% | 6.0% |