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Change in Reward System Activation and Gut Microbiota Following RYGB and Sleeve Gastrectomy for Weight Loss vs. Control-Heads Up Ancillary

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02735564

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Official title

Change in Reward System Activation and Gut Microbiota Following Roux-en-y and Sleeve Gastrectomy for Weight Loss as Compared to a Control- Heads Up Ancillary

Brief summary

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Bariatric surgery is considered an effective long-term intervention for the treatment of obesity and associated complications. While bariatric surgery has been shown to result in a large sustained weight loss, the degree of weight loss and maintenance thereafter varies greatly. The Heads Up Surgical Demonstration Project (Heads Up) is a 5 year project examining weight loss after an intensive medical intervention (IMI) and the 2 most widely used bariatric surgeries (roux-en-y gastric bypass or RYGB and sleeve gastrectomy or SG). Baseline data are collected prior to surgery and follow-up data are collected at 6 months and annually thereafter. A recent meta-analysis revealed that RYGB resulted in greater weight loss and is more effective in resolving obesity related comorbidities than SG, although SG has been shown to result in a reduction of perioperative complications and reoperations1. Full elucidation of the mechanisms leading to variation in success for weight loss interventions is crucial to understanding the most effective and reliable treatments for obesity and associated comorbidities.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02735564
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Enrollment
6 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Procedure

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
21 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Mar 31, 2016
Primary completion
Oct 31, 2017
Completion
Mar 31, 2018
Last update posted
Jan 5, 2020

2016 – 2018

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Pennington Biomedical Research Center Baton Rouge Louisiana 70808-4124

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