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• TITLE: Metabolic Syndrome and Perioperative Complications during Scheduled Surgeries with Spinal Anesthesia

  AUTHORS: José Pomares, Gustavo Mora-García, Roberto Palomino, Yéssika De León, Claudio Gómez-Alegría, Doris Gómez-Camargo

  KEYWORDS: Metabolic Syndrome X, Insulin Resistance, Spinal Anesthesia, Abdominal Obesity, Perioperative Period

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Anesthesiology, Vol.4 No.7, July 25, 2014

  ABSTRACT: Background: Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a constellation of factors associated with increased risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and Diabetes Mellitus. Despite of the many studies related to MS, little is known about its impact on scenarios such as surgical anesthesia. Objective: To examine the correlation between demographic and metabolic variables with the occurrence of perioperative complications in patients with MS undergoing scheduled surgeries using a spinal anesthesia technique in the surgery department at the University Clinic San Juan de Dios in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Methods: Observational, analytical, cross-sectional, single-center study of 150 subjects with MS and 150 control subjects. Perioperative complications, socio-demographic, hemodynamic and respiratory variables were registered. Groups were compared using t test, Fisher’s exact test or Chi-square, as appropriate. We applied a logistic multiple regression model, adjusted by backward stepwise at 0.25 and forward at 0.05, to find possible incompatible associations. p value surgeries using the subarachnoid anesthesia technique. Accordingly, it is appropriate to implement health intervention strategies by the surgical team, aiming at their prevention and management.