Endocrine Abstracts

Obesity is an important and chronic disease. It is known that obesity closely related with many chronic disorders.Also it is known as a result of serious morbidity and mortality. For treatment of obesity, dietary, medicine, egzercise and surgery should be useful but they have also some adverse effects and surgery should be cause of mortality and severe morbidity.

Our method of EGB is completely non-invasive and we investigated the efficacy of obesity treatment by using ‘External Gastric Balloon’ which has no side effects, easy to use and cheap way to loose weight. It’s produced by ‘variteks company’.

In this study we observed 91 patients, including 47 of study group and 44 of control group. In the study group patients used a corset for 2.51±1.07 months with hypocaloric diet. And during this time average weight loss was 6.08 kg. On the other hand the control group was planned to take 1400–1600 kcal/day diet (~1495.45±256.95 kcal/day). Patients in the control group diet period was ~6 months. Average weight loss was 6.06 kg. Patients in the study group weight loss with corset usage time between positive and statistically significant relationship at the level of 38.6% was observed (P<0.05). A statistically significant relationship between duration of the diet in the control group patients and weight loss was not seen (P>0.05).The higher weight loss can be seen with long corset using period.

Declaration of interest: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest that could be perceived as prejudicing the impartiality of the research project.

Funding: This work was supported, however funding details unavailable.