Metabolic surgery: action via hormonal milieu changes, changes in bile acids or gut microbiota? A summary of the literature

TE Sweeney, JM Morton - Best practice & research Clinical …, 2014 - Elsevier
Obesity and type 2 diabetes remain epidemic problems. Different bariatric surgical
techniques causes weight loss and diabetes remission to varying degrees. The underlying
mechanisms of the beneficial effects of bariatric surgery are complex, and include changes
in diet and behaviour, as well as changes in hormones, bile acid flow, and gut bacteria. We
summarized the effects of multiple different bariatric procedures, and their resulting effects
on several hormones (leptin, ghrelin, adiponectin, glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), peptide …