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Endocrine Abstracts (2016) 41 EP802 | DOI: 10.1530/endoabs.41.EP802

ECE2016 Eposter Presentations Obesity (69 abstracts)

A 4-year effects of body weight reduction on arterial function after bariatric surgery in morbidly obese patients

Vilma Dzenkeviciute 1 , Zaneta Petrulioniene 1 , Virginijus Sapoka 2 , Vaidotas Urbanavicius 2 , Gintautas Brimas 3 & Aiste Galkine 2


1Vilnius University Medical Faculty, Clinic of Heart and Vascular Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2Vilnius University Medical Faculty, Clinic of Internal Medicine, Oncology and Family Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania; 3Vilnius University Medical Faculty, Clinic of Gastroenterology, Nephrourology and Surgery, Vilnius, Lithuania.


Objective: To determine the long-term effect of weight loss on arterial function parameters in morbidly obese patients who underwent laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB).

Subjects: Forty-eight Caucasian subjects mean age 47.38±10.77 years and 32 (66.67%) were female with morbid obesity who underwent LAGB and completed 4 years follow-up.

Measurements: Patients were evaluated at baseline, 1 year and 4 years after LAGB for excess weightloss (EWL), arterial blood pressure (BP), metabolic factors including leptin, adiponectin, glucose, HbA1C, insulin, Homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR). Endothelial function was evaluated as reactive hyperemic index (RHI) and assessed using the EndoPAT 2000 device and arterial stiffness was determined by cardio – ankle vascular index (CAVI) using a VaSera VS-1000 vascular screening system (Fukuda Denshi, Tokyo, Japan).

Results: Subjects achieved a 29.90±14.76% EWL at one year and 36.57±23.91% EWL at four years after.

Subjects demonstrated significant improvement in metabolic parameters: an increase in adiponectin level (from 10.42±7.15 to 15.54±9.30 P<0.001) and a reduction in leptin (from 34.54±16.45 to 30.71±17.45 P<0.001), glucose (from 6.23±2.36 to 5.17±0.54 P=0.002), insulin levels (from 171.07±206.32 to 64.68±40.92 P=0.001.), HbA1c (from 6.15±1.01 to 5.70±0.55 P<0.001). Although, changes in average diastolic blood pressure did not reach significant differences after one and four years post-surgery, however systolic blood pressure was significantly lower four years after.

However, there were statistically significant increase in arterial stiffness after 1 years, but not significant differences were noted after 4 year (6.58±1.77 to 7.03±2.00 m/s; P=0.014 vs to 7.12±2.19 m/s; P=0.153). While, endothelial function did not show any improvement (2.07±0.51 to 2.01±0.54% P=0.948 vs to 2.05±0.42% P=0.086).

Conclusion: Weight reduction induced by LAGB was associated with significant improvement of metabolic parameters, as well as arterial stiffness but not with the endothelial function.

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