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SUBMITTER: Bandstein M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4926774 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bandstein Marcus M Mwinyi Jessica J Ernst Barbara B Thurnheer Martin M Schultes Bernd B Schiöth Helgi B HB
Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology 20160516 9
<h4>Objective</h4>Bariatric surgery is the most efficient treatment of severe obesity. We investigated to what extent BMI- or waist-hip ratio (WHR)-related genetic variants are associated with excess BMI loss (EBMIL) two years after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery, and elucidated the affected biological pathways.<h4>Methods</h4>Two-hundred fifty-one obese patients (age: 43 ± 10.7, preoperative BMI: 45.1 ± 6.1 kg/m(2), 186 women) underwent RYGB surgery and were followed up after two years ...[more]