Comparison of clinician- and patient-reported outcome measures in 95 abdominoplasty cases using BODY-Q and MCCRO-Q by Samuel Thomas Kitching, Claudia Rocco, Rachel Harwood, Gary Ross

“…Clinicians reported better outcomes in patients who achieved massive weight loss through diet and exercise as opposed to bariatric surgery (p=0.044). Patients who underwent concomitant surgical operation had significantly improved clinician-scored outcomes (p=0.047), and patients with post-operative complications achieved worse clinician-scored outcomes (p=0.036). …”
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Combined detection of inflammatory proteins is beneficial for diagnosing the papillary thyroid carcinoma and nodular goiter by Yongqin Pan, Mingxi Xu, Tsz Hong Chong, Siping Xie, Kunsong Huang, Guanghao Wang, Yuhua Ma, Jinyi Li, Wah Yang

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Noninvasive Evaluation of Liver Function in Morbidly Obese Patients by Patrick H. Alizai, Isabella Lurje, Andreas Kroh, Sophia Schmitz, Tom Luedde, Julia Andruszkow, Ulf P. Neumann, Florian Ulmer

“…In a prospective cohort study 102 morbidly obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery were evaluated for their liver function. …”
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Socio-Demographic and Preoperative Clinical Factors Associated With 5-Year Weight Trajectories After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy by Sahil Patel, MD, Chen Jiang, PhD, Brandon Cowan, MD, Jie Yin, MS, Catherine Schaefer, PhD, Sanjoy Dutta, MD, Rouzbeh Mostaedi, MD, Hélène Choquet, PhD

“…To determine whether socio-demographic and preoperative clinical factors contribute to the percent total body weight loss (%TBWL) after bariatric surgery (BS). Background:. BS is the most effective long-term treatment for medically complicated obesity. …”
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Decreased Cardiovascular Risk after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery in Chinese Diabetic Patients with Obesity by Xue Zhao, Wenyan Duan, Chenglin Sun, Zhuo Li, Yujia Liu, Xianchao Xiao, Gang Wang, Xiaokun Gang, Guixia Wang

“…The influence of bariatric surgery on cardiovascular risks in Chinese diabetic patients remains unclear. …”
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Glu4: An open-source package for real-time forecasting and alerting post-bariatric hypoglycemia based on continuous glucose monitoring by Luca Cossu, Francesco Prendin, Giacomo Cappon, David Herzig, Lia Bally, Andrea Facchinetti

“…Background: Post-bariatric hypoglycemia (PBH) is a severe and often overlooked complication of bariatric surgery (BS), characterized by dangerously low blood glucose levels after meals, particularly those high in carbohydrates. …”
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Nutritional and General Awareness of Vitamin D Status among Adult Population in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq: A Cross-Sectional Study by Reder Rafiq Mohammed Salih, Fadhluddin Nasruddin Shakor, Dalia Ardal Ali, Rafiq Mohammed Salih Rashid

“…In addition, less than 10% of individuals attributed vitamin D shortage to kidney and liver problems, fat malabsorption, obesity, and bariatric surgery. Nevertheless, more than two-thirds (83.3%) of participants defined the positive role of vitamin D in preventing osteoporosis and immune system strengthening (61%). …”
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Semaglutide and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in an adolescent with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase: a case report by Alaina P. Vidmar, Linus Kaiser, Matthew J. Martin, Stuart Abel, Aimee G. Kim, Madeleine Weitzner, Cynthia E. Muñoz, Lynda K. Fisher, Mimi S. Kim, Kamran Samakar

“…The successful outcomes from both pharmacotherapy and bariatric surgery suggest that tailored obesity management strategies can optimize health in this unique population, reinforcing the need for further research into comprehensive obesity care in individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.…”
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Nissen-Sleeve procedure versus laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in patients with morbid obesity and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: protocol for a non-inferiority randomise... by Jan A Apers, Martin Dunkelgrun, Ivonne Leeuwenburgh, Judith W H 't Hart, Bo J Noordman, Laser U Biter

“…Introduction Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) are the most frequently performed procedures in bariatric surgery. In patients with morbid obesity and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD), LRYGB is the most accepted procedure. …”
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Maintaining Fat-Free Mass and Muscle Mass during obesity therapy with Incretin-Mimetic Drugs by Dariusz Popiela, Karina Urbańska, Łukasz Stojak, Mateusz Grego, Filip Kwiatkowski, Mateusz Baczewski, Katarzyna Grego, Witold Czyż

“…This study aims to analyze current information about strategies that minimize the loss of FFM and MM and muscle function and consider using methods to prevent muscle atrophy in patients treated for obesity with other methods, such as diet, exercise, and bariatric surgery, to form a holistic approach for patients treated with IMDs. …”
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Prevention Of Breast and Endometrial cancer using Total Diet Replacement (PROBE-TDR) trial: protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Robert Clarke, Emma J Crosbie, Basil G Issa, John Belcher, Helen Clarke, Anthony Howell, Michelle Harvie, Hannah Harrison, Cheryl Lombardelli, Suzanne Krizak, Katharine Sellers, Yit Y Lim, Caroline Parkin, Shruthi Patel, Anthony J Maxwell, Julie Wisely, Sacha J Howell

“…Introduction Obesity and overweight are strong potentially modifiable risk factors for postmenopausal breast and endometrial cancer. Bariatric surgery can achieve considerable weight loss and risk reduction of weight-related cancer but is unlikely to be a feasible cancer prevention strategy. …”
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Serum Lactate Dehydrogenase Is a Novel Predictor for the Severity in the Patients With MAFLD: A Cross-Sectional Study in Hefei, China by Yu L, Bao S, Zhu F, Xu Y, Zu F, Liu Y, Jiang R, Chen S, Chen W

“…Liang Yu,1,* Shiming Bao,2,* Feng Zhu,3,* Yanyan Xu,1 Fuqiang Zu,1 Yanwei Liu,1 Runbeng Jiang,1 Wei Chen,4 Song Chen5 1Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Emergency Surgery, Tongling People’s Hospital, Tongling, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of General Surgery, Tongling People’s Hospital, Tongling, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of General Surgery, the Affiliated Chuzhou Hospital of Anhui Medical University (The First People’s Hospital of Chuzhou), Chuzhou, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Song Chen, Department of General Surgery, the Affiliated Chuzhou Hospital of Anhui Medical University (The First People’s Hospital of Chuzhou), Chuzhou, People’s Republic of China, Email chensong101425@163.com Wei Chen, Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, People’s Republic of China, Email 13665560109@163.comBackground & Aims: The aim of this study was to assess the association between the level of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and the severity of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD) and the potential diagnostic value of LDH for identifying at-risk metabolic associated steatohepatitis (MASH).Methods: This cross-sectional, real-world retrospective study enrolled a total of 1118 obese patients in the department of bariatric surgery at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2021. …”
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Surgeon Preference and Clinical Outcome of 3D Vision Compared to 2D Vision in Laparoscopic Surgery: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials by Rawin Amiri, BSc, Maurice J. W. Zwart, PhD, Leia R. Jones, BSc, Mohammad Abu Hilal, PhD, FRCS, Harrie P. Beerlage, PhD, FEBU, Mark I. van Berge Henegouwen, PhD, Wytze W. Lameris, PhD, Willem A. Bemelman, PhD, Marc G. Besselink, MD, MSc, PhD

“…This benefit was mostly seen in bariatric surgery (−16.3%; 95% CI, −1.28 to −0.21; P = 0.006; 2 studies; n = 58; I2 = 0%) and general surgery (−6.7%; 95% CI, −0.34 to −0.01; P = 0.036; 9 studies; n = 1056; I2 = 41%). …”
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Absence of MCJ/DnaJC15 promotes brown adipose tissue thermogenesis by Beatriz Cicuéndez, Alfonso Mora, Juan Antonio López, Andrea Curtabbi, Javier Pérez-García, Begoña Porteiro, Daniel Jimenez-Blasco, Pedro Latorre-Muro, Paula Vo, Madison Jerome, Beatriz Gómez-Santos, Rafael Romero-Becerra, Magdalena Leiva, Elena Rodríguez, Marta León, Luis Leiva-Vega, Noemi Gómez-Lado, Jorge L. Torres, Lourdes Hernández-Cosido, Pablo Aguiar, Miguel Marcos, Martin Jastroch, Andreas Daiber, Patricia Aspichueta, Juan Pedro Bolaños, Jessica B. Spinelli, Pere Puigserver, José Antonio Enriquez, Jesús Vázquez, Cintia Folgueira, Guadalupe Sabio

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Mitochondrial oxygen metabolism as a potential predictor of weight loss after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for class III obesity by Markus Engelmann, Markus Engelmann, Juliane Götze, Juliane Götze, Philipp Baumbach, Philipp Baumbach, Charles Neu, Charles Neu, Utz Settmacher, Michael Ardelt, Hermann Kissler, Sina M. Coldewey, Sina M. Coldewey

“…This was the first study to investigate the non-invasively measured mitochondrial oxygen metabolism in the long-term course after bariatric surgery. Further studies in larger cohorts are needed to confirm these findings.Clinical trial registrationhttps://www.bfarm.de/DE/Das-BfArM/Aufgaben/Deutsches-Register-Klinischer-Studien/_node.html, identifier DRKS00015891.…”
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Sucrose-preferring gut microbes prevent host obesity by producing exopolysaccharides by Hidenori Shimizu, Junki Miyamoto, Keiko Hisa, Ryuji Ohue-Kitano, Hiromi Takada, Mayu Yamano, Akari Nishida, Daiki Sasahara, Yuki Masujima, Keita Watanabe, Shota Nishikawa, Sakura Takahashi, Takako Ikeda, Yuya Nakajima, Naofumi Yoshida, Chiaki Matsuzaki, Takuya Kageyama, Ibuki Hayashi, Akari Matsuki, Ryo Akashi, Seiichi Kitahama, Masako Ueyama, Takumi Murakami, Shinsuke Inuki, Junichiro Irie, Noriko Satoh-Asahara, Hirokazu Toju, Hiroshi Mori, Shinji Nakaoka, Tomoya Yamashita, Atsushi Toyoda, Kenji Yamamoto, Hiroaki Ohno, Takane Katayama, Hiroshi Itoh, Ikuo Kimura

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Sleeve gastrectomy reveals the plasticity of the human gastric epithelium by Amit Elad, Botros Moalem, Dana Sender, Aya Bardugo, Ki-Suk Kim, Yhara Arad, Haya Benhayon, Ayelet Gal Etzyoni, Nehemia Greenstein, Aviv Halfon, Sarah Knapp, Michelle Malis, Bailey Peck, Itia Samuel, Amram Kupietzky, Saleh Daher, Esther Forkosh, David Hakimian, Tiberiu Hershcovici, Nadav Ilani, Lior Katz, Moshe Rottenstreich, Elez Vainer, Yuval Ishay, Eitan Zlotnick, Abed Nasereddin, Idid Shiff, Ariel Benson, Ronit Grinbaum, Siddhartha Mishra, Shlomi Kotler, Linda C. Samuelson, Darleen A. Sandoval, Rachel Ben-Haroush Schyr, Danny Ben-Zvi

“…Sleeve gastrectomy (SG), a bariatric surgery where 80% of the gastric corpus is excised, presents a challenge for gastric pH homeostasis. …”
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Post sleeve gastrectomy-enriched gut commensal Clostridia promotes secondary bile acid increase and weight loss by Shaoqian Zhao, Huibin Lin, Wen Li, Xiaoqiang Xu, Qihan Wu, Zhifeng Wang, Juan Shi, Yufei Chen, Lingxia Ye, Liuqing Xi, Lijia Chen, Mingyang Yuan, Junlei Su, Aibo Gao, Jiabin Jin, Xiayang Ying, Xiaolin Wang, Yaorui Ye, Yingkai Sun, Yifei Zhang, Xiaxing Deng, Baiyong Shen, Weiqiong Gu, Guang Ning, Weiqing Wang, Jie Hong, Jiqiu Wang, Ruixin Liu

“…The gut microbiome is altered after bariatric surgery and is associated with weight loss. However, the commensal bacteria involved and the underlying mechanism remain to be determined. …”
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Global burden of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, 2010 to 2021 by Gong Feng, Giovanni Targher, Christopher D. Byrne, Yusuf Yilmaz, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong, Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana, Leon A. Adams, Jerome Boursier, George Papatheodoridis, Mohamed El-Kassas, Nahum Méndez-Sánchez, Silvia Sookoian, Laurent Castera, Wah-Kheong Chan, Feng Ye, Sombat Treeprasertsuk, Helena Cortez-Pinto, Hon Ho Yu, Won Kim, Manuel Romero-Gómez, Atsushi Nakajima, Khin Maung Win, Seung Up Kim, Adriaan G. Holleboom, Giada Sebastiani, Ponsiano Ocama, John D. Ryan, Monica Lupșor-Platon, Hasmik Ghazinyan, Mamun Al-Mahtab, Saeed Hamid, Nilanka Perera, Khalid A. Alswat, Qiuwei Pan, Michelle T. Long, Vasily Isakov, Man Mi, Marco Arrese, Arun J. Sanyal, Shiv Kumar Sarin, Nathalie Carvalho Leite, Luca Valenti, Philip N. Newsome, Hannes Hagström, Salvatore Petta, Hannele Yki-Järvinen, Jörn M. Schattenberg, Marlen I. Castellanos Fernández, Isabelle A. Leclercq, Gulnara Aghayeva, Abdel-Naser Elzouki, Ali Tumi, Ala I. Sharara, Asma Labidi, Faisal M. Sanai, Khaled Matar, Maen Al-Mattooq, Maisam Waid Akroush, Mustapha Benazzouz, Nabil Debzi, Maryam Alkhatry, Salma Barakat, Said A. Al-Busafi, John Rwegasha, Wah Yang, Agyei Adwoa, Christopher Kenneth Opio, Mohammadjavad Sotoudeheian, Yu Jun Wong, Jacob George, Ming-Hua Zheng

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Diabetes Remission after Nonsurgical Intensive Lifestyle Intervention in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Adham Mottalib, Mahmoud Sakr, Mohamed Shehabeldin, Osama Hamdy

“…Partial or complete remission from type 2 diabetes was recently observed after bariatric surgeries. Limited data is available about the possibility of inducing diabetes remission through intensive weight reduction. …”
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