. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2011 Oct 14;9(1):108–112. doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2011.09.025

Table 2.

Gut Hormones.

There were no significant differences between sleeve and sham groups in fasting ghrelin levels using two different commercially available kits (Ghrelin 1 – Phoenix; Ghrelin 2 – Milliplex). Similarly, there were no significant difference between sleeve and sham groups in fasting serum gastric inhibitory protein (GIP), glucagon like peptide-1 (GLP-1), peptide YY (PYY), and pancreatic polypeptide (PP).

	Ghrelin 1	Ghrelin 2	GIP	GLP-1	PYY	PP
Units	ng/ml	pg/ml	pg/ml	pg/ml	pg/ml	pg/ml
Sham	9.5 ± 2.6	39 ± 63	41 ± 29	32 ± 14	46 ± 25	71 ± 63
Sleeve	12 ± 5.2	39 ± 49	28 ± 12	40 ± 25	43 ± 20	47 ± 23
p-value	0.19	0.99	0.17	0.42	0.77	0.22