Introduction: Loss of skeletal muscle mass and function (sarcopenia) is common in
individuals with obesity due to metabolic changes associated with a sedentary lifestyle …

We performed a meta-analysis to provide quantitative estimates of fat mass (FM) and fat-free
mass (FFM) changes in patients following bariatric surgery over 1 year. A systematic search …

The objective of this work was to investigate the risk of major osteoporotic fracture (MOF; hip,
proximal humerus, wrist and distal forearm, and clinical spine) in bariatric surgery patients …

Obesity-related glomerulopathy (ORG) and other obesity-associated kidney diseases pose a
major challenge to the treating nephrologist. We review the benefits of weight loss and …

Background and aims Evidence on the occurrence of low skeletal muscle mass (low-SMM)
following bariatric surgery (BS) as well as on the impact of low-SMM antedating BS on post …

Purpose This study aimed to evaluate body composition changes and the determinants of fat-
free mass loss (FFML) up to 3 years after sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and one-anastomosis …

Oxytocin (OXT), an anorexigenic hormone, is also bone anabolic. Further, OXT
administration results in increases in lean mass (LM) in adults with sarcopenic obesity. We …

Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) induces weight loss but its effects on body composition (BC) are
less well known. The aims of this longitudinal study were to analyse the BC changes from …

Purpose Bariatric surgery is an increasingly common treatment for obesity and related
comorbidities. This meta-analysis aimed to compare the outcomes of bariatric surgery and …

Introduction: Changes in body composition after different bariatric surgeries have been
studied extensively, but most of them have emphasized on Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Only a …