Is fat-free mass lower 24 months postbariatric surgery than nonoperated matched controls?
Weight-reduced bariatric surgery patients have greater FFM compared with nonoperated matched controls. These findings support surgically assisted weight loss as a physiologic process and in general patients do not suffer from excessive FFM depletion after bariatric procedures.
These findings suggest that PEP recovers hepatic energy from liver cell damage at an early phase after ischemia and reperfusion by prompt ATP production through the degradation of PEP into pyruvate in the liver.