Table 32: Mean BMI (kg/m2) in LAGB and VBG Non-Randomized Comparative Studies in a Review by the Medical Services Advisory Committee.
| N | Baseline | Six months | Nine months |
One year | 18 months | Two years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashy and Merded (1998) | |||||||
| VBG | 30 | 53.53 | 33.33 | ||||
| LAGB | 30 | 48.63 | 38.46 | ||||
| Statistically different? | Not assessable | Not assessable | |||||
| Suter et al. (1999) | |||||||
| VBG | 197 | 42.7 (n=197) | 31.3 (n=154) | 29 (n=110) | 29 (n=133) | 28.7 (n=84) | 29 (n=84) |
| LAGB | 76 | 45.5 (n=76) | 37 (n=64) | 337 (n=51) | 32 (n=47) | 31 (n=23) | 31 (n=19) |
| Statistically different? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
(Reproduced with kind permission from the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC). Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding for morbid obesity. 2003. Commonwealth of Australia)