Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Obesity Surgery
Published in: Obesity Surgery 3/2016

01-03-2016 | Letter to the Editor

The %EBMIL/%EWL Double Booby-Trap. A Comment on Studies that Compare the Effect of Bariatric Surgery Between Heavier and Lighter Patients

Author: A. W. van de Laar

Published in: Obesity Surgery | Issue 3/2016

Login to get access

Excerpt

Dear Editor, …
Literature
1.
Dixon JB, McPhail T, O’Brien PE. Minimal reporting requirements for weight loss: current methods not ideal. Obes Surg. 2005;15(7):1034–9.CrossRefPubMed
2.
Karmali S, Birch DW, Sharma AM. Is it time to abandon excess weight loss in reporting surgical weight loss? Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2009;4:503–6.CrossRef
3.
Dallal RM, Quebbemann BB, Hunt LH, et al. Analysis of weight loss after bariatric surgery using mixed-effects linear modeling. Obes Surg. 2009;19:732–7.CrossRefPubMed
4.
van de Laar A, de Caluwé L, Dillemans B. Relative outcome measures for bariatric surgery. Evidence against excess weight loss and excess body mass index loss from a series of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass patients. Obes Surg. 2011;21(6):763–7.CrossRefPubMed
5.
Júnior WS, do Amaral JL, Nonino-Borges CB. Factors related to weight-loss up to 4 years after bariatric surgery. Obes Surg. 2011;21(11):1724–30.CrossRefPubMed
6.
Livhits M, Mercado C, Yermilov I, et al. Preoperative predictors of weight-loss following bariatric surgery: systematic review. Obes Surg. 2012;22(1):70–89.CrossRefPubMed
7.
van de Laar A. Bariatric Outcomes Longitudinal Database (BOLD) suggests excess weight loss and excess BMI loss to be inappropriate outcome measures, demonstrating better alternatives. Obes Surg. 2012;22(12):1843–7.CrossRefPubMed
8.
Hatoum IJ, Kaplan LM. Advantages of percent weight-loss as a method of reporting weight-loss after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Obesity. 2013;21(8):1519–25.PubMedCentralCrossRefPubMed
9.
van de Laar AW. Algorithm for weight-loss after gastric bypass surgery considering body mass index, gender, and age from the Bariatric Outcome Longitudinal Database (BOLD). Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2014;10(1):55–61.CrossRefPubMed
10.
Tabone LE. Comment on: algorithm for weight-loss after gastric-bypass surgery considering body mass index, gender, and age from the bariatric outcome longitudinal database. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2014;10(1):61–3.CrossRefPubMed
11.
van de Laar AW, Dollé MH, de Brauw LM, et al. Validating the alterable weight loss (AWL) metric with 2-year weight loss outcome of 500 patients after gastric bypass. Obes Surg. 2014;24(7):1085–9.CrossRefPubMed
12.
van de Laar AW, Acherman YI. Weight loss percentile charts of large representative series: a benchmark defining sufficient weight loss challenging current criteria for success of bariatric surgery. Obes Surg. 2014;24(5):727–34.CrossRefPubMed
13.
van de Laar AW, Dollé MH, de Brauw LM, et al. Which baseline weight should be preferred as reference for weight loss results? Insights in bariatric weight loss mechanisms by comparing primary and revision gastric bypass patients. Obes Surg. 2015;25(4):687–93.CrossRefPubMed
14.
van de Laar AW, de Brauw LM, Meesters EW. Relationships between type-2 diabetes remission after gastric bypass and different weight loss metrics: arguments against excess weight loss in metabolic surgery. Accepted for publication; Surg Obes Relat Dis 2015.
15.
Park JY, Kim YJ. Efficacy of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in mildly obese patients with body mass index of 30–35 kg/m2. Obes Surg. 2015;25(8):1351–7.CrossRefPubMed
Metadata
Title
The %EBMIL/%EWL Double Booby-Trap. A Comment on Studies that Compare the Effect of Bariatric Surgery Between Heavier and Lighter Patients
Author
A. W. van de Laar
Publication date
01-03-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Obesity Surgery / Issue 3/2016
Print ISSN: 0960-8923
Electronic ISSN: 1708-0428
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-015-1967-1

Other articles of this Issue 3/2016

Obesity Surgery 3/2016 Go to the issue

Original Contributions

Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Improves Olfaction Sensitivity in Morbidly Obese Patients

Review Article

Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Smoking as a Risk Factor for Venous Thromboembolism Events: Review of the Literature on the Common Pathophysiological Mechanisms

Original Contributions

Trocar Port Hernias After Bariatric Surgery

Original Contributions

Health-Related Quality of Life after Bariatric Surgery and its Correlation with Glycaemic Status in Hong Kong Chinese Adults

How I Do It

Achieving the “Minimal Scarring” Concept in Bariatrics by Port-Site Relocation

Brief Communication

Proton Pump Inhibitor Prophylaxis After Gastric Bypass Does Not Cause Hypomagnesemia