Remissão do diabetes mellitus tipo 2 em pacientes submetidos à cirurgia bariátrica: revisão integrativa da literatura

Abstract

Beside the advance of the global obesity epidemic, Diabetes Mellitus has become one of the main diagnoses given by physicians in primary health care – along with hypercholesterolemia and arterial hypertension, forming a triad that makes up metabolic syndrome. In Brazil, by 2045, the projection is that there will be more than 20.3 million diabetics, which will further overload the health system. Because to the intrinsic relationship of diabetes with obesity, this integrative literature review selected 14 articles published on the MedLine, PubMed, Scielo and UpToDate platforms, all approached the theme “remission of diabetes mellitus after bariatric surgery”. It was noticed that there was a prevalence of disease remission after surgery compared to the use of medications and when lifestyle changes were added, the surgical method proved it’s superiority