Overview
Bariatric surgery is a group of weight-loss procedures that modify the digestive system, typically by reducing stomach capacity or altering nutrient absorption, to treat severe obesity in people who have not achieved sustained weight loss through diet and lifestyle change. Common operations include sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, and related interventions such as intragastric balloon placement are also used in Obesity Management. The field is clinically important because obesity is associated with serious comorbidities, and surgical treatment can produce substantial and durable weight reduction with improvements in metabolic health, while also carrying risks that require careful patient selection and follow-up. Research published under this topic examines surgical and device-based outcomes, including sequential intragastric balloon treatment in patients with super obesity and predictive markers for weight loss following gastric bypass. A recurring theme is post-surgical nutrition: studies address nutritional deficiencies in pregnancy after surgery for morbid obesity and Wernicke encephalopathy after sleeve gastrectomy, underscoring the need for micronutrient monitoring. Other articles explore the broader physiology and context of obesity, including adipose tissue biology, body composition and skeletal muscle mass in severe obesity, dietary approaches to weight reduction, energy expenditure estimation, obesity in schizophrenia, and obesity-related conditions such as obstructive sleep apnoea. Together they situate bariatric surgery within comprehensive, multidisciplinary obesity care.
Research published in this journal
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
Obesity in Schizophrenia
Nutritional Deficiencies in Pregnancy after Surgery for Morbid Obesity
Reversal of Obesity: The Quest for the Optimum Dietary Regimen
Wernicke Encephalopathy after Sleeve Gastrectomy. A Review of the Literature
The Use of Predictive Markers for the Development of a Model to Predict Lowest Quartile Weight Loss following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
Understanding the Physiology of Adipose Tissue: A Key to Combat Obesity?
Docosahexaenoic Acid Supplementation is Not Anti- Inflammatory in Adipose Tissue of Healthy Obese Postmenopausal Women
Toward A Diet Based on MicroRNA
A New Model of Body Composition Detects Association Between Severe Obesity and Increase in Skeletal Muscle Mass
Obstructive Sleep Apneas, Cervical Osteophytosis and Sudden Death: A Paradigmatic Case and a Brief Overview of the Literature
How this research is being cited
The 12 articles above have been cited 55 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2026 · Journal of Obesity Management
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2026 · L'Encéphale
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2025 · The Lancet
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2025 · The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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2025 · The Lancet
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2025 · American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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2024 · International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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2024 · Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids
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