ArticleBiomolecules & biomedicine2023
The impact of prior obesity surgery on glucose metabolism after body contouring surgery: A pilot study.
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- Hormonal predictors of the insulin sensitive phenotype in humans.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2025Article
- The Impact of Prior Obesity Surgery on Bleeding after Abdominal Body Contouring Surgery.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2024Article
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Abstract
Body contouring surgery enhances physical appearance by means of surgical subcutaneous fat removal (SSFR). However, it remains unclear how SSFR may affect glucose metabolism and its broader effects on the endocrine system, especially in individuals who have undergone obesity (bariatric) surgery. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of SSFR on glucose excursion and insulin resistance in such patients, by examining them over three visits (within 1 week before surgery, 1 week after surgery, and 6 weeks after surgery). The independent impact of SSFR and history of obesity surgery on glucose homeostasis was evaluated in 29 participants, of whom ten patients (34%) had a history of obesity surgery. Indices of glucose metabolism were evaluated using cluster robust-error logistic regression. Results indicated that SSFR led to a gross improvement in insulin resistance at 6 weeks after the surgery in all patient's irrespective of BMI, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) status, or history of obesity surgery (OR 0.22; p = 0.042). However, no effect was observed on glucose excursion except for a transient increase at visit 2 (1 week after surgery) in those without prior obesity surgery. Interestingly, participants with a history of obesity surgery had approximately half the odds being in the upper tertile for HOMA-IR (OR 0.44; p = 0.142) and ten-folds lower odds of having severely abnormal glucose excursion (OR 0.09; p = 0.031), irrespective of their BMI, T2D status, or time post SSFR. In conclusion, this study showed that body contouring surgery through SSFR resulted in (at least) short-term improvement in insulin resistance (independent of the participant's BMI, T2D status, or history of obesity surgery) without affecting glucose excursion under the GTT. On the contrary, obesity surgery may have a long-term effect on glucose excursion, possibly due to sustained improvement of pancreatic ß-cell function.
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