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NASH Presence is Associated with a Lower Weight Loss One and 2 Years After Bariatric Surgery in Women with Severe Obesity

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Purpose

Given that obesity is a major medical problem associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and the lack of studies on postsurgery weight loss according to hepatic histology, we aimed to analyse weight loss indicators according to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) presence one and 2 years postsurgery.

Materials and Methods

The weight loss pattern of 410 women with severe obesity (SO) was analysed after sleeve gastrectomy (SG, n = 191) and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB, n = 219) according to NASH presence at baseline and at 12 and 24 months postsurgery. Weight loss indicators: expected BMI (eBMI), excess BMI loss percentage (%EBMIL), total weight loss percentage (%TWL) and alterable weight loss percentage (%AWL).

Results

Unlike RYGB, after SG, a higher percentage of NASH patients do not reach the eBMI 2 years postsurgery. %TWL and %AWL presented no differences after RYGB despite the presence of NASH. After SG, there is a worse ponderal evolution of all indicators analysed in the presence of NASH. Unlike SG, diabetic patients lose less weight than non-diabetic patients after RYGB. The presence of NASH in diabetics had no impact on weight loss indicators, but in non-diabetics, it had an impact, particularly in the SG group.

Conclusion

The presence of NASH suggests a worse weight loss pattern through all the analysed indicators one and 2 years after SG in women. The presence of T2DM appears to result in less weight loss after RYGB, but only non-diabetic women presenting NASH lose less weight that non-diabetic women in the absence of NASH after SG.

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This research was funded by Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain, grant number PI18/00081 (to Fàtima Sabench and Daniel del Castillo).

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  1. Fàtima Sabench and Laia Bertran contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Servei de Cirurgia, Departament de Medicina I Cirurgia, Hospital Sant Joan de Reus, Universitat Rovira I Virgili (URV), Institut d’Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV), Avinguda Doctor Josep Laporte, 2, 43204, Reus, Spain

    Fàtima Sabench, Margarita Vives, Marta París & Daniel del Castillo

  2. Grup de Recerca GEMMAIR (AGAUR) - Medicina Aplicada, Departament de Medicina I Cirurgia, URV, IISPV, Mallafré Guasch, 4, 43007, Tarragona, Spain

    Fàtima Sabench, Laia Bertran, Carmen Aguilar, Salomé Martínez, Jessica Binetti, Cristóbal Richart, Daniel del Castillo & Teresa Auguet

  3. Servei Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitari Joan XXIII Tarragona, Mallafré Guasch, 4, 43007, Tarragona, Spain

    Jessica Binetti, Monica Real, Alja Alibalic & Teresa Auguet

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Key Points

- Lower percentage of patients achieved the eBMI 2 years after SG in NASH presence.

- %EBMIL at 12 and 24 months were lower in presence of NASH after RYGB and after SG.

- %TWL and %AWL were not affected by NASH presence after RYGB, but did it after SG.

- After SG, non-T2DM patients presented worse weight loss results in NASH presence.

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Sabench, F., Bertran, L., Vives, M. et al. NASH Presence is Associated with a Lower Weight Loss One and 2 Years After Bariatric Surgery in Women with Severe Obesity. OBES SURG 32, 3313–3323 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-022-06175-w

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