Quality of life, food tolerance, and eating disorder behavior after laparoscopic gastric banding and sleeve gastrectomy - results from a middle eastern center of excellence

Table 1 HRQOL by surgery group assessed by the SF-36

Subscale category	Gastric Sleeve (n = 48)			Gastric Band (n = 36)	P value²
Subscale category	Preoperative	Postoperative	P value¹	Post-operative	P value²
Physical functioning	54.4 ± 30.6	85.0 ± 22.9	< 0.001*	91.0 ± 33.7	0.677
Physical role limitation	52.1 ± 43.1	85.2 ± 30.6	< 0.001*	85.4 ± 31.8	0.946
Body pain	64.1 ± 30.6	80.1 ± 29.1	0.025*	76.04 ± 31.4	0.368
General health	62.0 ± 19.9	76.2 ± 22.0	0.002*	70.08 ± 22.7	0.188
Vitality	52.6 ± 16.8	68.2 ± 22.4	< 0.001*	60.00 ± 21.0	0.106
Social functioning	68.2 ± 27.8	84.2 ± 26.1	0.008*	83.7 ± 22.9	0.47
Emotional role limitation	62.5 ± 40.5	87.1 ± 28.7	0.001*	80.6 ± 34.2	0.279
Mental health	66.8 ± 18.8	69.6 ± 21.8	0.566	63.7 ± 21.3	0.206

P value of < 0.05 was considered significant. Data expressed as mean ± SD
P value¹: Wilcoxon signed rank test, comparison between pre and post-operative gastric sleeve patients’ quality of life.; P value ²: Mann-Whitney U test, comparison between Post –operative quality of life between Gastric sleeve and Band
*P < 0.05