SynthesisObesity surgery2021
Is Bariatric Surgery Better than Nonsurgical Weight Loss for Improving Asthma Control? A Systematic Review.
Synthesis in Obesity surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery for Patients with Obesity and Asthma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Obesity surgery · 2026Pooled it
- Surgery is associated with better long-term outcomes than pharmacological treatment for obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Pooled it
- Obesity and asthma: obesity causes and aggravates asthma across the entire type-2 inflammation spectrum.The European respiratory journal · 2026Review
- Multi-target Effects of Short-Chain Fatty Acids for Obesity-Related Asthma: Interventional Potential and Challenges.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2025Review
- Obesity: Next game changer of allergic airway diseases?Clinical and translational medicine · 2025Review
- Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor (Journal of asthma and allergy · 2025Article
- Observational
- Weighted Breaths: Exploring Biologic and Non-Biologic Therapies for Co-Existing Asthma and Obesity.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2024Review
- Bariatric Surgery in Asthma: A Narrative Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Review
- Weight Loss Interventions for Adults With Obesity-Related Asthma.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2024Article
- Non-pharmacological interventions for asthma prevention and management across the life course: Umbrella review.Clinical and translational allergy · 2024Review
- Management of the pediatric patient with asthma and obesity.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2024Review
- Vertical sleeve gastrectomy associates with airway hyperresponsiveness in a murine model of allergic airway disease and obesity.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Improvements of lung volumes and respiratory symptoms after weight loss through laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2022Article
- Obesity-related asthma in children and adolescents.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2022Review
- Multimorbidity in Difficult Asthma: The Need for Personalised and Non-Pharmacological Approaches to Address a Difficult Breathing Syndrome.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Review
- Clinical Characteristics and Management Strategies for Adult Obese Asthma Patients.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2022Review
- Weight and Glycemic Control Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery and Pharmacotherapy in Patients With Melanocortin-4 Receptor Deficiency.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Obesity is associated with increased severity of asthma. Bariatric surgery can be effective in weight loss and improvement in asthma. Two reviewers conducted a systematic review using search terms: 'weight loss', 'bariatric surgery', and 'asthma'. Adult studies including all bariatric procedures and nonsurgical weight loss regimes were included. Thirty-nine studies, including twenty-six bariatric studies and thirteen nonsurgical studies, were found. No study directly compared bariatric surgery to nonsurgical techniques. Bariatric surgery offered greater weight loss (22-36%) than nonsurgical programmes (4.1-14.2%) and more consistently improved medication use, airway hyperresponsiveness, hospitalisation rate or ED attendance and lung function, while change in inflammatory markers were variable. Bariatric surgery appears to be superior in treating asthma; however, further study on surgery for both mild and severe asthma is required.
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