Background: General surgey is a specialty of high demand and relevance. We aimed to collect the opinions of the residents and their tutors and heads of department, regarding the impact that this COVID-19 pandemic is having - and will probably have - on the training of future general surgeons in Peru. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study in Lima, Peru. We surveyed residents of general surgery, as well as their tutors and heads of surgery departments from 14 Peruvian hospitals. Results: The impact of COVID-19 was considered severe in approximately 60% of first-year residents, 100% of second-year residents, 40% of third-year residents and about 80% of attending physicians. The 68.8% of the residents considered that the loss of surgical training opportunities during the pandemic would negatively affect their job performance. In addition, as of 03/16/2020, no residents had performed ...

“Objective: To assess the association between the percentage of excess body mass index loss (%EBMIL) and cardiometabolic risk reduction in Peruvian adults undergoing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG). Methods: Retrospective cohort study conducted with adult patients who underwent LSG in a bariatric clinic during 2016–2020. The outcome variable was cardiometabolic risk change (expressed in Δ) 1 year after LSG. To that effect, the variables total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, very LDL (VLDL) cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, insulin, and HOMA-IR at baseline and after 12 months were considered. The exposure variable was %EBMIL. Crude and adjusted β coefficients were estimated with linear regression models. Results: Of the 110 patients analyzed, 68.2% were women, and the median patient age was 34.5 years. In the mod...

Objective: To assess the association between the percentage of excess body mass index loss (%EBMIL) and cardiometabolic risk reduction in Peruvian adults undergoing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG). Methods: Retrospective cohort study conducted with adult patients who underwent LSG in a bariatric clinic during 2016–2020. The outcome variable was cardiometabolic risk change (expressed in Δ) 1 year after LSG. To that effect, the variables total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, very LDL (VLDL) cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, insulin, and HOMA-IR at baseline and after 12 months were considered. The exposure variable was %EBMIL. Crude and adjusted β coefficients were estimated with linear regression models. Results: Of the 110 patients analyzed, 68.2% were women, and the median patient age was 34.5 years. In the model ...