• Eva Pardina, Roser Ferrer, Juan Antonio Baena-Fustegueras, Albert Lecube, Jose Manuel Fort, Víctor Vargas, Roberto Catalán, and Julia Peinado-Onsurbe.
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Biology Faculty, Barcelona University, Barcelona, Spain.
• Obes Surg. 2010 May 1;20(5):623-32.

BackgroundThe relationship between C-reactive protein (CRP), nitric oxide (NO), leptin, adiponectin, and insulin growth factor 1 (IGF-1) is poorly defined in morbidly obese patients before and after gastric bypass and, in some cases, is controversial.MethodsWe examined the plasma of 34 morbidly obese patients before and 1, 6, and 12 months after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery.ResultsObese people had more CRP (21.3 +/- 1.8 microg/ml) and leptin (36.9 +/- 4.0 ng/ml) than those in the control group (nonobese people: CRP = 6.9 +/- 0.9 microg/ml, p < 0.0001; leptin = 7.5 +/- 0.4 ng/ml, p < 0.0001). However, they had less NO (30.4 +/- 2.7 nmol/ml), IGF-1 (77.5 +/- 6.6 ng/ml), and adiponectin (11.1 +/- 1.0 microg/ml) than those in the control group (NO = 45.8 +/- 3.9 nmol/ml, p = 0.0059; IGF-1 = 202.0 +/- 12.0 ng/ml, p < 0.0001; adiponectin = 18.0 +/- 2.0 microg/ml, p < 0.0001). During weight loss, the amount of CRP and leptin decreased until they reached the nonobese values, but the level of NO remained lower than in nonobese people, even 1 year after surgery. The linear regression slopes were negative and very significant for leptin (p = 0.0005) and CRP (p = 0.0018) but were less significant for NO (p = 0.0221). IGF-1 displayed a very good linear regression (both negative and significant) with some anthropometric parameters, including body mass index (p = 0.0025), total fat (p = 0.0177), and the percentage of fat (p < 0.0001).ConclusionFor the first time, we report the relationship between IGF-1 and CRP, NO, leptin, and adiponectin. For all these parameters, the best and most widely demonstrated improvements in comorbidities before and during weight loss in morbid obesity were associated with CRP and leptin.

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