Comment on: Identifying Mechanisms that Predict Weight Trajectory after Bariatric Surgery: Rationale and Design of the BioBehavioral Trial

As with most things worth studying, it feels like the more we uncover surrounding the interconnecting mechanisms that lead to the obesity state the more it seems like we have yet to discover. This principle holds true with bariatric surgery as we continue to uncover more and more protective health benefits of contemporary metabolic procedures, like laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) and sleeve gastrectomy (SG).1,2 Any bariatric surgeon will tell you that many of these patients enjoy profound physiologic improvements in a weight-independent fashion, that is to say that many patients leave hospital already off of diabetes or hypertension medications before any appreciable weight loss has occurred.
Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research