Obesity - Gastric bypass

Pr. François PATTOU

The beneficial metabolic consequences of bariatric surgery independent of weight loss remain largely unexplained. Baud et al. identify sodium as a key factor and show that Roux-en-Y gastric bypass decreases the amount of sodium normally brought into the intestine with bile, thereby impairing intestinal glucose uptake via sodium-glucose cotransport.

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