Methodological appraisal of the evidence about efficacy of metabolic surgery in adults with non-morbid obesity and hypertension: An overview of systematic reviews

Ref ID 850
First Author M.E. Caceres-Tavara
Journal INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SURGERY
Year Of Publishing 2022
URL https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1743919122004939?via%3Dihub
Keywords • Single reviewer
• Low methodological quality
• Surgery
• Endocrinology
• Disclosure
• Low reporting quality
Problem(s) • Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality
• Funding or sponsor of systematic review not reported
• Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided
• Single reviewer / lack of double checking
Article Type Empirical
Article Subtype Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review
First Author Country Peru
Checklists • AMSTAR 2
Aim To evaluate the certainty and quality of the available evidence on the efficacy of metabolic surgery in adult patients with hypertension and non-morbid obesity.
Level of Investigation Descriptive
Summary of Findings From 3 systematic reviews of the efficacy of metabolic surgery in adult patients with hypertension and non-morbid obesity indexed across PubMed (Medline), Scopus, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library databases up to June 2020. The methodological quality (AMSTAR 2) in all 3 included systematic reviews was critically low. Only 1 review performed dual data extraction; none of the reviews provided a list of excluded studies with rationale or provided details of funding.
Number of systematic reviews included 3
Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed 314
Treatment impacted No
Treatment impacted description
Interpretation impacted Not Applicable
Interpretation impacted description