Although bariatric surgery is beneficial in severely obese patients, it is a drastic procedure. Gut hormones that influence satiety, such as peptide YY (PYY) and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1 ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Research on the gut microbiome — and clinical attention ... requiring strategies to mitigate inactivation by gastric acid, and there are “major knowledge gaps” relating ...

Following surgery, there were 1,651 adverse events (6.0, 4.6, and 5.7 per year after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding, and sleeve gastrectomy, respectively).