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Biometabolic Outcomes After Weight Loss Surgery: An Individualized Approach

Variable outcomes after weight loss surgery are likely attributable to complex, poorly understood mechanisms. Due to the significant impact that morbid obesity has on a patient's health, successful management of obesity and its related comorbid medical conditions is important and thus necessitates continued improved therapies for treating obesity. Although the mechanisms of weight loss after surgical intervention are poorly understood, improved understanding of molecular and metabolic changes that occur after weight loss surgery may offer the ability to provide targeted precision therapy for patients with morbid obesity undergoing surgical therapy. In this proposal, we will combine a clinical trial whereby modifications to the gold-standard for weight loss surgery, the gastric bypass, are evaluated while simultaneously measuring molecular and metabolic changes that occur in response to these weight loss procedures. Through creating variable lengths of bypass intestine after gastric bypass, we will be able to determine the effect of malabsorption on clinical outcomes and mechanisms involved in weight loss after gastric bypass. We will also use two control groups. One will be a surgical weight loss control group and consist of patients undergoing a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, a non-intestinal bypass procedure. The other group will consist of patients having non-surgical weight loss therapy. To asses metabolic changes that occur in response to surgical weight therapy and specifically intestinal bypass and malabsorption, we will examine changes in the gut microbiome and plasma gut enteroendocrine hormones. To evaluate molecular pathways that are impacted as a result of gastric bypass and malabsorption, we will measure circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) in the blood. Measurement of miRNAs will provide data on an easily measurable molecular marker for each treatment group. This is a first step in translational exploration of mechanisms of weight loss after surgery by evaluating both clinical and molecular/metabolic outcomes and begin an explorative process towards creating an individualized approach to improving outcomes after weight loss surgery.

Start: July 2021
The FundoRingOAGB Versus Non-wrapping (Non-banded) Standard Method of Laparoscopic One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass

Currently, one anastomosis gastric bypass (OAGB) or mini-gastric bypass (MGB) is a common bariatric procedure for treating obesity. Weight gain after surgery is a big problem in bariatric practice. Therefore, adjustable bands and rings are used, for example, "FobiRing". But foreign material can cause complications - the erosion of the stomach wall. For this reason, surgeons avoid the use of various mechanical devices on living tissues. The greatest criticism is of the OAGB for the likelihood of biliary reflux. In case of reflux of bile into the esophagus after surgery, as a rule, a second operation is required with conversion OAGB to the Roux-en-Y method. In addition, along with obesity, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) are steadily increasing world weight and antireflux surgery must be performed simultaneously with bariatric surgery in obese patients. In these cases, most often in bariatric practice, hiatus cruroraphy is performed, and less often fundoplication using the fundus of the excluded part of the stomach. We hypothesize that total fundoplication can not only treat GERD but also significant prevent the return of weight like after a banded gastric bypass and prevent postoperative bile reflux in the esophagus. The aim study is to compare primary outcome as weight loss after total wrapping of the fundus of the gastric excluded part (FundoRing) and non - wrapping (non - banded) standard method of laparoscopic one anastomosis gastric bypass and measure secondary outcome: bile reflux in the esophagus and GERD symptoms. Methods: Adult participants (n=100) are randomly allocated to one of two groups: Experimental surgical bariatric procedure in the first (A) group: patients (n=50) undergo the laparoscopic one anastomosis gastric bypass with the total wrapping of the fundus of gastric excluded part and suture cruroplasty if present hiatal hernia (FundoRingOAGB group); Active comparator surgical bariatric procedure in the second (B) group: patients (n=50) undergo the laparoscopic one anastomosis gastric bypass and with only suture cruroplasty if present hiatal hernia (OAGB group).

Start: March 2021
Role NLRP3 Inflammasome in Weight Loss Following Sleeve Gastrectomy in Morbidly Obese Patients

Epidemiological studies show a very rapid increase in the epidemic of obesity in the Caribbean population. 6 out of 10 adults are overweight and 1 out of 4 is obese. Most are women. Consequences : harm to health and possible reduction in life expectancy due to the association with many cardiovascular comorbidities. Adverse effects of obesity on the cardiovascular and endocrine systems are attributed a chronic low-grade inflammatory state in obese patients. Visceral adipose tissue is largely responsible for the inflammatory syndrome. Obesity can also induce the formation of multi-protein platforms called inflammasomes also activated by mitochondrial production. Morbid obesity treatment with sleeve gastrectomy is an effective long term therapeutic for weight loss but also beneficial in terms of insulin resistance and cardiovascular complications. Some patients nevertheless remain resistant to the beneficial cardio-metabolic effects of bariatric surgery. However, the mechanisms that regulate the extent of weight loss and its stabilization after bariatric surgery are still poorly understood. Our study aims to describe the evolution of postoperative weight loss and the place of preoperative inflammation in its amplitude. The hypothesis is that the level of inflammation in visceral fat before surgery determines the extent of postoperative weight loss in obese women who have undergone sleeve gastrectomy.

Start: March 2021
Investigation of the Effects of Different Levels of Obesity on the Respiratory System

Obesity can be defined as' a disease that occurs as a result of the energy (calorie) taken with food being more than the energy consumed and the excess energy being stored as fat in the body, negatively affecting the quality and duration of life. BMI is calculated by dividing the weight (kg) by the square of the height (m2) (1,2). According to the World Health Organization (WHO) classification, BMI between 25-29.9 kg / m2 is overweight, 30-34.9 kg / m2 is light, 35-39.9 kg / m2 is medium, 40 kg / m2 and above is considered as severe obesity. Obesity has important effects on respiratory function. These mechanical and biochemical effects are not easily measured by pulmonary function test and BMI measurement.Changes caused by mediators produced by adipose tissue likely cause changes in lung function, but this effect is not fully understood at the moment. The aim of our study is to make these effects more understandable and to compare them with different obesity classes and people with normal weight who are considered healthy. Hypothesis 0: The effects of obesity on respiratory functions and multidimensional health-related parameters do not show a statistically significant difference compared to individuals with different levels of the disease and normal weight individuals classified as healthy. Hypothesis 1: The effects of obesity on respiratory functions and multidimensional health-related parameters show a statistically significant difference compared to people with different levels of the disease and normal weight individuals classified as healthy. The study will be carried out by face-to-face evaluations in a clinical setting with obese patients between the ages of 18-65 who have applied to the clinic with a diagnosis of obesity and agree to participate in the study, and healthy volunteers who are considered to be healthy without a diagnosis of obesity. Looking at the evaluations to be made; Measurement of respiratory function parameters, measurement of respiratory muscle strength, anthropometric measurements, evaluation of body composition, quality of life, upper extremity muscle strength and grip strength, lower extremity muscle strength, fatigue evaluation, vital signs, evaluation of exercise perception, presence of dyspnea and its level will be evaluated. A detailed description of these evaluations and the parameters to be used will be explained in detail in the next step.

Start: March 2020