Feasibility of Bariatric Surgery as a Strategy for Secondary Prevention in Cardiovascular Disease: A Report from the Swedish Obese Subjects Trial

Table 3

Health related quality of life in surgery and control groups at baseline and changes in prevalence after 2 and 10 years of follow-up. Only the patients applicable for the certain timepoint are included in the statistical calculations.

	Baseline	Change at 2-year follow-up	Change at 10-year follow-up
	Surgery, $n=21$	Surgery, $n=21$	Surgery, $n=13$
	Control, $n=14$	Control, $n=13$	Control, $n=8$
Current health perceptions
Surgery	41.3 $\pm$ 19.8	21.8 $\pm$ 30.3	$-$0.8 $\pm$ 14.5
Control	35.1 $\pm$ 24.2	6.6 $\pm$ 16.2	6.8 $\pm$ 29.3
Social interaction
Surgery	15.5 $\pm$ 15.6	$-$9.9 $\pm$ 12.6${}^{*}$	$-$3.4 $\pm$ 8.9
Control	15.8 $\pm$ 11.1	0.4 $\pm$ 9.9	$-$9.7 $\pm$ 12.0
Obesity-related Problems scale
Surgery	48.4 $\pm$ 31.3	$-$35.1 $\pm$ 26.5${}^{***}$	$-31.0\pm {26.7}^{**}$
Control	28.3 $\pm$ 27.7	8.7 $\pm$ 19.6	$-$0.8 $\pm$ 14.6
Overall Mood
Surgery	2.85 $\pm$ 0.52	0.23 $\pm$ 0.41	0.09 $\pm$ 0.34
Control	2.79 $\pm$ 0.63	$-$0.01 $\pm$ 0.55	0.18 $\pm$ 0.32
Anxiety
Surgery	6.5 $\pm$ 4.4	$-$1.7 $\pm$ 3.5	$-$1.2 $\pm$ 2.8
Control	7.5 $\pm$ 4.8	$-$1.0 $\pm$ 2.7	$-$2.4 $\pm$ 4.2
Depression
Surgery	5.2 $\pm$ 2.8	$-$1.9 $\pm$ 2.7${}^{*}$	$-0.7\pm {2.6}^{*}$
Control	5.1 $\pm$ 2.7	0.5 $\pm$ 2.2	0.1 $\pm$ 2.8

P-value denotes differences in effects of treatment between the two groups from baseline to 2 and 10 years of follow-up.${}^{*}$$P\mathrm{\hspace{0.17em}\hspace{0.17em}}<.05\text{,}$${}^{**}$$P\mathrm{\hspace{0.17em}\hspace{0.17em}}\mathrm{\hspace{0.17em}\hspace{0.17em}}<.01\text{,}$${}^{***}$$P\mathrm{\hspace{0.17em}\hspace{0.17em}}<.001$.
Current health perceptions: scale range 0–100; high scores represent well-being.
Social interaction: scale range and obesity-related problems scale 0–100; high scores indicate dysfunction.
Overall mood: scale range 1–4; high scores represent well-being.
Anxiety and depression: scale range 0–21; high scores represent symptoms.