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The Choice of Gastric Bypass or Sleeve Gastrectomy for Patients Stratified by Diabetes Duration and Body Mass Index (BMI) level: Results from a National Registry and Meta-analysis

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Purpose

To determine whether sleeve gastrectomy (SG) or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) should be the optimal choice in patients stratified by diabetes duration and body mass index (BMI) level.

Methods

Classification tree analysis was performed to identify the influential factors for surgical procedure selection in real setting. Meta-analyses stratified by influential factors were conducted to compare the complete diabetes remission rates between SG and RYGB. The cost-effectiveness analysis was performed when results from meta-analysis remain uncertain.

Results

Among 3198 bariatric procedures in China, 824 (73%) SGs and 191 (17%) RYGBs were performed in patients with T2DM. Diabetes duration with a cutoff value of 5 years and BMI level with 35.5 kg/m2 were identified as the influential factors. For patients with diabetes duration > 5 years, RYGB showed a significant higher complete diabetes remission rate than SG at 1 year: 0.52 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.46–0.58) versus 0.36 (95% CI: 0.30–0.42). For patients with diabetes duration ≤ 5 years and BMI ≥ 35.5 kg/m2, there was no significant difference between 2 procedures: 0.57 (95% CI: 0.43–0.71) for SG versus 0.66 (95% CI: 0.62–0.70) for RYGB. The cost-effectiveness ratios of SG and RYGB were 244.58 and 276.97 dollars per QALY, respectively.

Conclusions

For patients with diabetes duration > 5 years, RYGB was the optimal choice with regard to achieving complete diabetes remission at 1 year after surgery. However, for patients with diabetes duration ≤ 5 years and BMI ≥ 35.5 kg/m2, SG appeared to provide a cost-effective choice.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank all surgeons, registrars, administrative nurses, and technicians who registered patients in the GC-MBD. We also sincerely thank the participating investigators for this study group from the following centers: Hongwei Lin, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital; Jinghai Song, M.D., Ph.D., Department of General Surgery, Beijing Hospital; Ruicheng Yan, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery & Department of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, East District of Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University; Zhen Li., M.D., Ph.D., Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University; Wei Yang, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Hepatobiliary, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University; Bing Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Department of General Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine; Lisheng Wu, M.D., Ph.D., Department of General Surgery, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China; Yanjun Liu, M.D., Ph.D., Gastrointestinal Minimally Invasive Centre • Centre for Obesity and Metabolic Diseases, Chengdu Third People’s Hospital; Shaihong Zhu., M.D., Ph.D., Department of General Surgery, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University; Kelimu abudureyimu, M.D., Ph.D., Department of General Surgery, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People’s Hospital; Zhifei Li.,M.D., Ph.D., Department of General Surgery, Peking University Third Hospital; Yongtao Yu, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University; Hongzhi Zhao, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Hepatobiliary and Extrapancreatic Surgery, Tianjin Hospital of ITCWM Nankai Hospital; Xiaoyu Liang, M.D., Ph.D., Department of General Surgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital; Mingxing Ding, M.D., Ph.D., Department of General Surgery, Jiahe Surgical Hospital Changchun; Qiang Xu, M.D., Ph.D., Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital; Lei Chen, M.D., Ph.D., Department of General Surgery, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University (Qingdao); Zhijun Wang., M.D., Department of General Surgery, The People’s Hospital of Anyang City; Peichun Sun, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Henan Provincial People’s Hospital; Jianhui Yin, M.D., Ph.D., Department of General Surgery, The First Hospital of Kunming; Ju Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Department of General Surgery, Inner Mongolia People’s Hospital; Jianlin Wu, M.D., Ph.D., Department of General Surgery, ZiBo Central Hospital; Zhifei Wang, M.D., Department of Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital.

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Zhongtao Zhang has received funding from National Key Technologies R&D Program (Grant No. 2015BAI13B09), National Key Technologies R&D Program of China (No. 2017YFC0110904), Capital’s Funds for Health Improvement and Research (No. 2020-1-2021). Mengyi Li has received funding from Beijing Excellent Talents Training Funding Program (Grant No. 2018000021469G195). For the remaining authors, none was declared.

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ZTZ and PZ conceived the study and are the principal investigators. YL, WMY, SHZ, LPW, SZL, JW, XWZ, JLH, JSK, and NWZ contributed to the design and oversaw the study conduct. MYL and NZ wrote the manuscript and responsible for the statistical analysis. All authors critically participated in interpretation of the data, reviewed the manuscript for intellectual content, and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Key points

• Diabetes duration with a cutoff value of 5 years and BMI level with 35.5 kg/m2 were identified as the influential factors for surgical procedure selection in real setting.

• For patients with diabetes duration > 5 years, RYGB was the optimal choice with regard to achieving complete diabetes remission at 1 year after surgery.

• However, for patients with diabetes duration ≤ 5 years and BMI ≥ 35.5 kg/m2, SG appeared to provide a cost-effective choice.

• There were no differences in major complications (bleeding, leakage, obstruction, stricture, and ulceration) between RYGB and SG.

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Li, M., Zeng, N., Liu, Y. et al. The Choice of Gastric Bypass or Sleeve Gastrectomy for Patients Stratified by Diabetes Duration and Body Mass Index (BMI) level: Results from a National Registry and Meta-analysis. OBES SURG 31, 3975–3989 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-021-05459-x

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