Bariatric Surgery Outcomes and Cost-Effectiveness for Type 2 Diabetes in Malaysia

180 patients with obesity and poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus who underwent bariatric surgery in Malaysia, with longitudinal clinical outcomes tracked for up to 5 years. A matched cohort of 40 patients compares surgical outcomes to conventional management. This retrospective cohort study was authored by Jo Ann Galvan and hosted on Harvard Dataverse.

Use Cases

• Modeling long-term cost-effectiveness of bariatric surgery based on the matched cohort comparison.
• Analyzing longitudinal trends in HbA1c and BMI following bariatric surgery.
• Studying postoperative complication rates and mortality for patients with type 2 diabetes.
• Comparing clinical outcomes between surgical and conventional management for diabetes.

Strengths

• Contains longitudinal data with follow-up outcomes up to 5 years after surgery.
• Includes a matched cohort of 40 patients for comparative cost-effectiveness analysis.
• Focuses on a specific patient population (obesity with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes) in Malaysia.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the primary clinical outcomes cohort is known (n=180), but the total number of data rows is unknown.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Retrospective cohort study.

Time Range

Follow-up outcomes up to 5 years after surgery.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 03:22:59; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Malaysia