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This is nationwide registry-based randomised clinical multicenter trial in which patients will be randomised to gastric bypass (RYGB) or sleeve gastrectomy (SG). The co-primary endpoint are weight control over 5 years and the amount of severe adverse events. Additionally the investigators have predefined a number of secondary endpoints, and the trial has a sufficient number of patients to allow comparisons across subgroups.
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Follow-up of the patients will use the routines respectively for regular follow-up on the Scandinavian Obesity Surgery Registry (SOReg) after 6v, 1 year, 2 years, and after 5 years.
In order to evaluate if SG has advantages compared to the previous standard, the investigators want to examine whether SG operations are equivalent (non-inferiority) for weight loss and weight stability five years after surgery in comparison to RYGB, and if SG is associated with fewer long-term complications (superiority). The primary outcome measure emanates from assessment of long term weight management and the frequency of serious complications.
The unforeseen global Covid-19 pandemic resulted in that almost all elective benign surgery in Scandinavia was cancelled from March 2020. Thus, the pandemic had severe consequences on the recruitment to the BEST trial during 2020-2021.
During autumn of 2021 the BEST steering committee decided to perform an additional analysis of the power for primary endpoints.
Additional information (Courcoulas et al, JAMA Surg 2020 March; Howard et al, JAMA Surg 2021 Dec) revealed that the risk of any of the predefined substantial adverse events after bariatric surgery is higher than previously anticipated in the revised power calculation, i.e. >25% instead of 13%. These figures were confirmed in an analysis of real-world data from the bariatric national quality register SOReg in Sweden which registered all patients undergoing sleeve or bypass in Sweden since 2007.
An independent statistician performed the analysis based on information above, but also on 2-year data in BEST. In conclusion, it was stated:
Two post hoc power analyses were conducted based on the data from February 2022:
Taking information above into account and in the interest of not prolonging inclusion period unnecessarily the trial steering committee took a decision to stop inclusion in BEST during spring 2022 (final date 31st of March). At termination of inclusion the number of participants that had been included and operated in BEST were 1752. The trial Data Safety and Monitoring Committee reviewed and supported the decision before termination of recruitment to the BEST trial.
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