The effects of weight loss due to gastric banding and lifestyle modification on red blood cell aggregation and deformability in severe obese subjects

• Published in: International Journal of Obesity Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 342 - 347
• Main Authors: Capuano, P, Catalano, G, Garruti, G, Trerotoli, P, Cicco, G, Martines, G, Tedeschi, M, DeTullio, A, Mallardi, G, Lucafo', M A, De Fazio, M, Giorgino, F, Memeo, V, Puglisi, F
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.03.2012; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis; Biological and medical sciences; Blood glucose; Blood viscosity; Body mass; Body mass index; Cholesterol; Correlation coefficient; Diabetes; Diet; Diet, Reducing - methods; Disease; Endocrinology; Epidemiology; Erythrocyte Aggregation; Erythrocyte Deformability; Erythrocytes; Exercise; Female; Gastrointestinal surgery; Gastroplasty - methods; Glucose; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Health risks; High density lipoprotein; Humans; Insulin; Internal Medicine; Italy - epidemiology; Laparoscopy; Lasers; Lifestyle; Lifestyles; Lipids; Lipoproteins; Male; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Metabolic disorders; Mortality risk; Obesity; Obesity, Morbid - blood; Obesity, Morbid - surgery; Obesity, Morbid - therapy; original-article; Physiological aspects; Public Health; Regression analysis; Rheology; Risk factors; Risk Reduction Behavior; Statistics; Stomach; Stomach, duodenum, intestine, rectum, anus; Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases; Surgery of the digestive system; Thromboembolism - epidemiology; Thromboembolism - etiology; Thromboembolism - prevention & control; Triglycerides; Variance analysis; Weight control; Weight Loss; Italy; HDL; bariatric; rheological; erythrocyte; surgery; Human; Modification; Obesity; Deformability; Nutrition; Gastric banding; Nutrition disorder; Bariatric surgery; Weight loss; Red blood cell; Metabolic diseases; Aggregation; Blood cell; Severe; Lipoprotein HDL; Nutritional status; Life style

Objective: To investigate the changes in the aggregation index (AI) and the elongation index (EI), in severe obese subjects (MbObS) undergoing laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB). AI and EI are measured by Laser assisted Optical Rotational Red Cell Analyzer (LORCA) and are markers of eryt...