Ricerc@Sapienza

Bariatric surgery has a large number of benefits other than weight loss, including improved control of glycemia-up to diabetes remission-, blood pressure, and dyslipidaemia, while mortality due to cardiovascular disease and female cancers are also reduced, often independent of body weight reduction. For these reason bariatric surgery was renamed as metabolic surgery. In this review of the literature we report the effects of metabolic surgery on mortality reduction, type 2 diabetes and its vascular complications, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obstructive sleep apnea, sexual dysfunction and appetite reduction and food preferences in the short and long term.