Serum β-Endorphin Levels in Morbidly Obese Patients: The Effect of Vertical Banded Gastroplasty
| Autor: | Anastasios J. Karayiannakis, D. Alexiou, G. G. Makri, Konstantinos N. Syrigos, Andrew P. Zbar, L. Athanasiadis, Elias Bastounis |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Male endocrine system medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Gastroplasty Morbidly obese Peptide hormone Morbid obesity Adrenocorticotropic Hormone Weight loss Internal medicine Weight Loss medicine Humans business.industry Stomach beta-Endorphin Nutritional status medicine.disease Lipids Obesity Obesity Morbid Banded gastroplasty Endocrinology medicine.anatomical_structure Female Surgery sense organs medicine.symptom business hormones hormone substitutes and hormone antagonists |
| Zdroj: | European Surgical Research. 30:409-413 |
| ISSN: | 1421-9921 0014-312X |
| DOI: | 10.1159/000008606 |
| Popis: | The associations between serum β-endorphin levels and clinical and metabolic variables as well as β-endorphin changes after surgically induced weight loss were investigated in 43 morbidly obese patients. A significant positive correlation between β-endorphin and body weight, degree of body weight increase and ACTH was found preoperatively. Only body weight was independently associated with β-endorphin levels. Twelve months following vertical banded gastroplasty, there was an extensive weight loss in all patients and improvement in their metabolic profile. A significant reduction in β-endorphin levels which was proportional to the extent of weight loss was also observed. |
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