Long-term body composition improvement in post-menopausal women following bariatric surgery: a cross-sectional and case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Bariatric surgery (BS) induces loss of body fat mass (FM) with an inexorable loss of lean mass (LM). Menopause leads to deleterious changes in body composition (BC) related to estrogen deficiency including LM loss and increase in total and visceral adipose tissue (VAT). This study aims to describe the long-term weight evolution of post-menopausal women after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and to compare the BC between BS patients vs post-menopausal non-operated women.

Design

Cross-sectional study of 60 post-menopausal women who underwent RYGB ≥2 years prior to the study with nested case-control design.

Methods

Post-menopausal BS women were matched for age and BMI with controls. Both groups underwent DXA scan, lipids and glucose metabolism markers assessment

SUBMITTER: Santini S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8789027 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature