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Gastrointestinal hormones and bariatric surgery-induced weight loss
Viorica Ionut1, Miguel Burch, Adrienne Youdim
1Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. Viorica.Ionut@cshs.org
Unlabelled:
Obesity continues to be a major public health problem in the United States and worldwide. While recent statistics have demonstrated that obesity rates have begun to plateau, more severe classes of obesity are accelerating at a faster pace with important implications in regards to treatment. Bariatric surgery has a profound and durable effect on weight loss, being to date one of the most successful interventions for obesity.
Objective:
To provide updates to the possible role of gut hormones in post bariatric surgery weight loss and weight loss maintenance.
Design And Methods:
The current review examines the changes in gastro-intestinal hormones with bariatric surgery and the potential mechanisms by which these changes could result in decreased weight and adiposity.
Results:
The mechanism by which bariatric surgery results in body weight changes is incompletely elucidated, but it clearly goes beyond caloric restriction and malabsorption.
Conclusion:
Changes in gastro-intestinal hormones, including increases in GLP-1, PYY, and oxyntomodulin, decreases in GIP and ghrelin, or the combined action of all these hormones might play a role in induction and long-term maintenance of weight loss.
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