Relation between food addiction and nutritional status in patients candidates for bariatric surgery
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2017
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In the last years the rate of obesity is increasing dramatically in many Latin-American countries. For improving the outcome of the treatment, some of the public hospitals and private clinics created obesity units with clinical experts on that field. For many of the patients attending to those clinics a surgical procedure is indicated as a treatment. This increase in the number of patients that undergoes a surgical procedure for treating obesity has created the necessity to improve the clinical description of those patients, and which of those clinical variables could potentially influence the outcome of the surgery. At the same time, the concept of “food addiction” has gained interest as one of the mechanisms that may underlie the etiology of obesity. The concept of food addiction is based in a comparison between the neurophysiological and behavioral changes that certain foods could produce on a person and the resemblance of the changes occurred in patients with substance dependence. To address the need for a standardized tool to identify persons with food addictive behaviors, The Yale Food Addiction Scale was created. The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) is a 25-point questionnaire, based on DSM-IV codes for substance dependence criteria, to assess food addiction [1–3]. In this study, we used the Yale Food Addiction Scale for assessing food addiction in a bariatric surgery population. This study was done in the Obesity Unit of Clínica Alemana in Santiago de Chile. For the study, we analyzed the profile of obese patients looking for bariatric surgery as a treatment
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European Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017, Vol. 27, pp. S1086-S1087, Supp. 4
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Obesity, Patients, Treatment, Bariatric surgery