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Changes in Insulin Resistance Following Bariatric Surgery: Role of Caloric Restriction and Weight Loss

Overview of attention for article published in Obesity Surgery, April 2005
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Title
Changes in Insulin Resistance Following Bariatric Surgery: Role of Caloric Restriction and Weight Loss
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Obesity Surgery, April 2005
DOI 10.1381/0960892053723367
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Andrew A Gumbs, Irvin M Modlin, Garth H Ballantyne

Abstract

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and obesity in the western world is steadily increasing. Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment of T2DM in obese patients. The mechanism by which weight loss surgery improves glucose metabolism and insulin resistance remains controversial. In this review, we propose that two mechanisms participate in the improvement of glucose metabolism and insulin resistance observed following weight loss and bariatric surgery: caloric restriction and weight loss. Nutrients modulate insulin secretion through the entero-insular axis. Fat mass participates in glucose metabolism through the release of adipocytokines. T2DM improves after restrictive and bypass procedures, and combinations of restrictive and bypass procedures in morbidly obese patients. Restrictive procedures decrease caloric and nutrient intake, decreasing the stimulation of the entero-insular axis. Gastric bypass (GBP) operations may also affect the entero-insular axis by diverting nutrients away from the proximal GI tract and delivering incompletely digested nutrients to the distal GI tract. GBP and biliopancreatic diversion combine both restrictive and bypass mechanisms. All procedures lead to weight loss and decrease in the fat mass. Decrease in fat mass significantly affects circulating levels of adipocytokines, which favorably impact insulin resistance. The data reviewed here suggest that all forms of weight loss surgery lead to caloric restriction, weight loss, decrease in fat mass and improvement in T2DM. This suggests that improvements in glucose metabolism and insulin resistance following bariatric surgery result in the short-term from decreased stimulation of the entero-insular axis by decreased caloric intake and in the long-term by decreased fat mass and resulting changes in release of adipocytokines. Observed changes in glucose metabolism and insulin resistance following bariatric surgery do not require the posit of novel regulatory mechanisms.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 122 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 21 17%
Researcher 20 16%
Student > Bachelor 19 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Other 22 18%
Unknown 21 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 59 47%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 3%
Psychology 3 2%
Other 12 10%
Unknown 21 17%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 January 2020.
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#2,271,237
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#220
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#2
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