Morbid obesity after spinal cord injury: an ailment not to be treated?

Wong, S, Barnes, T, Coggrave, M, Forbes, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7416-9843, Pounds-Cornish, E, Appleton, S and Belci, M (2013) Morbid obesity after spinal cord injury: an ailment not to be treated? European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 67 (9). pp. 998-999. ISSN 0954-3007

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Abstract

A 28-year-old man with a T12 incomplete paraplegia after a spinal cord injury (SCI) was referred for weight management in October 2011. He reported a weight gain from about 120 to 180.3 kg since his SCI. He put on a further 11.4 kg in January 2012 despite intensive dietetic treatment, including very low-caloric diet, anti obesity medication and active physiotherapy programme. He had undergone an uncomplicated laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass successfully in March 2012. For the first 7 months after surgery, his total weight loss was 32.4 kg. He has shown functional improvement (6 min walking distance and Berg balance score). There were important improvements in body mass index; waist circumference; mid-upper arm circumference; triceps-skinfold thickness; mid-arm muscle circumference; total cholesterol; high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol; and low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol and triglycerides. This report describes the first UK morbidly obese SCI patient who has undergone gastric bypass surgery and highlights the provision of bariatric surgery as an option to consider if all nonsurgical interventions have been tried.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	adult,anti-obesity agents,body mass index,caloric restriction,gastric bypass,great britain,humans,laparoscopy,male,obesity, morbid,spinal cord injuries,treatment outcome,weight loss,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Gastroenterology and Gut Biology Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Nutrition and Preventive Medicine
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	06 Aug 2014 10:58
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 00:03
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/49796
DOI:	10.1038/ejcn.2013.129

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