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. 2020 Jul 10;44(11):2279–2290. doi: 10.1038/s41366-020-0637-0

Table 4.

Proportion reaching excess BMI > 50% at 5 years after surgery.

N EBMIL > 50% Unadjusted OR (95% CI) Adjusted ORa (95% CI) adjusted pa
Age
<30 1877 1553 (82.7%) Reference
30–40 3474 2862 (82.4%) 0.98 (0.84–1.13)
40–50 4303 3402 (79.1%) 0.79 (0.68–0.91)
50–60 2798 2167 (77.4%) 0.72 (0.62–0.83)
>60 823 588 (71.4%) 0.52 (0.43–0.63)
BMI
<40 4617 3992 (86.5%) Reference
40–50 7521 5855 (77.8%) 0.55 (0.50–0.61)
50–60 1048 676 (64.5%) 0.28 (0.24–0.33)
>60 89 49 (55.1%) 0.19 (0.13–0.29)
Sex
Female 10,308 8430 (81.8%) Reference
Male 2967 2142 (72.2%) 0.58 (0.53–0.64)
Comorbidity, n (%)
Sleep apnoea, n (%) 1275 913 (71.6%) 0.61 (0.54–0.70)
Hypertension, n (%) 3574 2647 (74.1%) 0.64 (0.58–0.70)
Diabetes, n (%) 2604 1828 (70.2%) 0.52 (0.47–0.57)
Dyslipidaemia, n (%) 1412 1021 (72.3%) 0.63 (0.56–0.72)
Dyspepsia/GERD, n (%) 1053 820 (77.9%) 0.89 (0.77–1.04)
Depression, n (%) 1731 1256 (72.6%) 0.63 (0.56–0.71)
Cardiovascular comorbidity, n (%) 705 520 (73.8%) 0.70 (0.59–0.84)
Education
Primary education < 9 years 2232 1746 (78.2%) 0.89 (0.79–1.00) 0.98 (0.87–1.10) 0.733
Secondary education 8154 6535 (80.1%) Reference Reference Reference
Higher education < 3 years 1408 1112 (79.0%) 0.93 (0.81–1.07) 0.89 (0.77–1.02) 0.096
Higher education > 3years 1425 1146 (80.4%) 1.02 (0.88–1.17) 0.93 (0.80–1.08) 0.321
Profession
Senior officials and management 479 405 (84.6%) 1.19 (0.92–1.54) 1.42 (1.08–1.87) 0.011
Professionals and technicians 2815 2253 (80.0%) 0.87 (0.77–0.98) 1.01 (0.86–1.15) 0.864
Clerical support workers 1291 1031 (79.9%) 0.86 (0.74–1.00) 0.94 (0.80–1.11) 0.475
Services and sales workers 4534 3726 (82.2%) Reference Reference Reference
Manual labour 1773 1350 (76.1%) 0.69 (0.61–0.79) 1.04 (0.89–1.22) 0.611
Elementary occupation 904 713 (78.9%) 0.81 (0.68–0.97) 0.97 (0.80–1.16) 0.712
Disposable income
<20th percentile 3183 2464 (77.4%) Reference Reference Reference
20–50th percentile 4442 3537 (79.6%) 1.14 (1.02–1.27) 1.06 (0.94–1.19) 0.359
50–80th percentile 3982 3221 (80.9%) 1.24 (1.10–1.39) 1.11 (0.99–1.26) 0.085
>80th percentile 1231 1231 (81.1%) 1.25 (1.07–1.46) 1.20 (1.02–1.41) 0.026
Residence
Large city and municipality 4930 3920 (79.5%) Reference Reference Reference
Medium-sized town and municipality 4260 3367 (79.0%) 0.97 (0.88–1.07) 1.07 (0.96–1.19) 0.230
Small town, urban area, rural municipality 4070 3270 (80.3%) 1.05 (0.95–1.17) 1.12 (1.01–1.25) 0.039
Marital status
Married/partner 6012 4841 (80.5%) Reference Reference Reference
Divorced/widow/widower 2085 1649 (79.1%) 0.91 (0.81–1.03) 0.99 (0.87–1.12) 0.821
Single 5167 4071 (78.8%) 0.90 (0.82–0.99) 0.91 (0.82–1.01) 0.067
Financial aid
None 10,196 8292 (81.3%) Reference Reference Reference
Retirement pension 236 166 (70.3%) 0.54 (0.41–0.72) 0.84 (0.63–1.14) 0.267
Disability pension/early retirement 2145 1591 (74.2%) 0.66 (0.59–0.74) 0.81 (0.71–0.91) 0.0004
Social benefits 698 523 (74.9%) 0.69 (0.57–0.82) 0.75 (0.62–0.91) 0.003
Heritage
Swedish born, Swedish descendant 10,665 8604 (80.7%) Reference Reference Reference
Swedish born, non-Swedish descendant 709 572 (80.7%) 1.00 (0.82–1.21) 0.94 (0.77–1.15) 0.561
Born outside Sweden 1889 1384 (73.3%) 0.66 (0.59–0.73) 0.64 (0.57–0.72) <0.0001

Results of logistic regression model on the proportion of patients achieving satisfactory weight loss, defined as >50% excess BMI loss, 5 years after primary gastric bypass.

aLogistic regression model, adjusted for age, preoperative BMI, sex, sleep apnoea, hypertension, T2DM, dyslipidaemia, dyspepsia/GERD, depression, and cardiovascular comorbidity.