Why the study?
Weight regain affects approximately 30% of patients post-bariatric surgery and relates to recurrence of medical problems, but whether body composition and metabolic biomarkers return to pre-operative levels remained to be tested.
Does weight regain after sleeve gastrectomy reverse improvements in body composition and metabolic biomarkers compared to sustained weight loss or pre-operative obesity?
Population
Patients randomly selected from a hospital database between 2001 and 2020
Comparison
Weight regain vs weight loss after sleeve gastrectomy vs non-surgical obesity controls
Design
Cross-sectional study
Authors
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WR may warrant biomarker monitoring post-bariatric surgery; cross-sectional data leaves open causal dynamics and intervention effects.
Does weight regain after sleeve gastrectomy reverse improvements in body composition and metabolic biomarkers compared to sustained weight loss or pre-operative obesity?
Weight regain after sleeve gastrectomy is associated with a complete reversal of surgery-induced improvements in body composition and metabolic biomarkers, returning them to pre-operative obesity levels.
Hany et al. (2022) studied this question.
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