Bariatric Surgery and COVID-19

Imperial College London

Status: Completed

Conditions: COVID-19; Bariatric Surgery Candidate

Treatments: Other: COVID-19 pandemic

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05532891

010420C19

Details and patient eligibility

About

The National Bariatric Surgical Registry (NBSR) is a prospectively collected database for all patients undergoing elective bariatric surgery in the UK. It was used to identify patients that underwent elective bariatric surgery during the pandemic (one year from 1st April 2020). Characteristics of this group were compared with a pre-pandemic cohort (one year from 1st September 2018).

Enrollment: 11,545 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All patients listed on National Bariatric Surgical Registry (NBSR) that underwent elective bariatric surgery during the pandemic (one year from 1st April 2020) or prior to the pandemic (one year from 1st September 2018) -

Exclusion criteria

• Where a variable was 'not recorded' this point was excluded from analysis. For age, gender, procedure type and provider the records were 100% complete, for BMI at time of surgery there was 5% missing data and for other variables the missing value rate was 2% or lower.

Trial design

11,545 participants in 2 patient groups

Pre-pandemic

Description:

Patients that underwent elective bariatric surgery in a control period prior to the pandemic (one year from 1st September 2018).

Pandemic

Description:

Patients that underwent elective bariatric surgery during the pandemic (one year from 1st April 2020)

Treatment:

Other: COVID-19 pandemic