Samuel Cottam, Austin Cottam, Daniel Cottam, MD, Amit K Surve, MD, Hinali Zaveri, MD, Christina Richards. Bariatric Medicine Institute
Background: The Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) has been one of the most popular surgeries in the USA for years. While many models have been made to investigate the factors that affect weight loss, these factors are still highly debated.
Objective: To use multivariate analysis to investigate the factors that predicts performance of RYGB patients.
Setting: Private Practice, United States
Methods: 110 out of 344 patients who received a RYGB at a single institution between Jan 2010 and April 2014 were included in this study. Data was collected retrospectively. Patients were included if they had greater than 1 year follow up with at least three follow up points and could be modeled with R2>0.95. All patients were one year beyond surgery, while 40 were completely lost to follow up, 104 at 1 month, 138 at 3 months, 188 at 6 months, and 225 at one year. 9 patients were not included because they did meet the criteria of the study. Patients were divided into quartiles based on percentage excess weight loss (%EWL) at one year. Multivariate analysis was performed to determine the significant factors that influence patients being in the first quartile of weight loss (17-60% %EWL).
Results: Only males with a Body Mass Index (BMI) above 44 and females with a BMI above 64 were found to be predictive of patients being in the first quartile. Our model has Positive and Negative predictor values of 66% and 80% respectively with sensitivity and specificity of 29% and 95% respectively.
Conclusions: Due to the lack of weight loss male patients with a BMI over 44 and female patients with a BMI over 64 will most likely end up in the bottom quartile. This information should be discussed with patients when deciding a procedure.