Published in Indian Journal of Pediatrics
Pediatric overweight/obesity has assumed epidemic proportions in India. It is associated with several significant complications and tracks into adulthood. The mainstay of management is a holistic lifestyle modification that must be adopted by the family as a whole. It involves dietary changes, regular physical activity, and behavioral changes that ...
The majority of patients having bariatric surgery are reproductive-age women who are advised to delay pregnancy for at least 12 months after surgery. Many women become pregnant sooner and the association between gestational weight gain (GWG) and maternal long-term weight is unknown. The primary objective of this study was to compare weight outcomes...
Published in Surgical endoscopy
Bariatric surgery results in resolution of hypertension in over 50% of patients. While weight loss is a critical component to hypertension resolution after bariatric surgery, there may also be weight loss-independent mechanisms. We hypothesized that sleeve gastrectomy (SG) initiates changes in the gut microbiome which reduce postoperative blood pre...
Published in European Journal of Internal Medicine
For more than 50 years, there has been evidence for greater consumption of sweet- foods in overweight humans and animals, relative to those that have a normal weight. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that energy deficit resulting from dieting, while moving the individual from a higher weight set point, would result in heightened susceptibili...
Published in Eating and weight disorders : EWD
Pre-surgical psychosocial evaluation of bariatric surgery (BS) patients should identify psychiatric issues that could worsen after surgery and those requiring additional ongoing intervention. In this view, the use of reliable, appropriate and concise evaluating instruments is of critical importance. The aim of the present study was to investigate t...
ObjectivesThere is still a large unmet need for novel osteoarthritis (OA) treatments that could provide clinically important effects on long-term pain relief (≥12 months). We examined the relation of bariatric surgery along with weight loss to analgesic prescription and all-cause mortality among individuals with OA.MethodsWe conducted a cohort stud...
Published in Journal of visceral surgery
Scientific societies recommend to seek cancer prior to bariatric surgery. In our tertiary referral center, we aimed to study performance of abdominal CT-scan before bariatric surgery. We retrospectively included all patients who underwent bariatric surgery and a pre-operative abdominal CT-scan in our academic center, between January 2015 and Decemb...
Published in Surgical endoscopy
Our group has previously demonstrated that low socioeconomic status (SES) independently predicts ≤ 25th percentile weight-loss following bariatric surgery (BS). Given that sociodemographic metrics can be separated into income, education, and race, we sought to investigate how each metric independently impacted weight loss following BS. Patients fro...
Published in Eating and weight disorders : EWD
Findings concerning the impact of bariatric surgical intervention on both psychological variables and weight loss are often controversial and misconstrued the world over. The aim of this study was to classify bariatric surgery patients according to patterns of preoperative measures that may predict postoperative psychological and physiological outc...
Published in Surgical endoscopy
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality after bariatric surgery. Roughly 80% of VTEs occur post-discharge. The frequency of post-discharge heparin (PDH) prophylaxis use is unknown, and evidence about benefits and risks is limited. We aimed to determine the rate of use of PDH prophylaxis and evaluate its relati...
