• Medicina · May 2024

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    Bariatric Surgery in Asthma: A Narrative Review.

    • Maciej Mawlichanów, Paulina Tatara, Andrzej Kwiatkowski, Anna Różańska-Walędziak, and Maciej Walędziak.
    • Clinic of General, Oncological, Metabolic Surgery and Thoracic Surgery, Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw, 04-141 Warszawa, Poland.
    • Medicina (Kaunas). 2024 May 14; 60 (5).

    AbstractNearly 60% of asthmatics in the USA suffer from obesity. Asthma is a comorbid condition alongside obesity, commonly accompanied by conditions such as hypertension and type 2 diabetes. The positive effect of bariatric surgery on patients suffering from hypertension and type 2 diabetes, which leads to either a reduction in the dose of medication taken for the aforementioned diseases or the withdrawal of the disease, is quite well proven in the literature. Currently, the impact of bariatric operations on the control and course of bronchial asthma and pharmacological treatment has not been fully recognized and described, requiring further research; therefore, the following review of the literature was conducted.

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