Pre-surgical Depressive Symptoms and Post-surgical Weight Change
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Those with mild to severe depressive symptoms at baseline, compared to those without depressive symptoms, trended to lower percent weight loss after SR-RYGB at all time points although this was not statistically significantly different (Fig. Percent body weight loss from pre-surgery (time 0) over 5 years of follow-up in participants with mild to severe depressive symptoms (closed symbols) or no depressive symptoms (open symbols) at baseline undergoing silastic ring Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (triangles) or sleeve gastrectomy (circles). Data are means ± SEM. For participants who underwent laparoscopic gastric bypass: 