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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2016 Nov 15;95:85–90. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2016.11.014

Table 2.

Effects of bariatric surgery on body composition, calcitropic hormones and bone turnover markers in the 12 months after either RYGB or SG

Variable Treatment Baseline 12 months Delta 12 months % change p-value within group p-value between groups at 12 months
Weight (kg) RYGB 118.6 ± 15.2 67.5 ± 35.8 −30.1 ± 7.6 <0.001 0.228
SG 113.7 ± 17.6 85.7 ± 20.3 −25.0 ± 10.1 <0.001
BMI (kg/m2) RYGB 44.1 ± 5.1 31.2 ± 4.8 −29.6 ± 7.6 <0.001 0.372
SG 43.7 ± 5.9 32.6 ± 7.2 −25.5 ± 11.2 <0.001
Visceral adipose tissue (cm2) RYGB 207.8 ± 104.4 121.7 ± 80.1 −44.8 ± 17.5 <0.001 0.895
SG 203.8 ± 111.9 109.0 ± 70.4 −43.2 ± 29.5 0.002
Subcutaneous adipose tissue (cm2) RYGB 463.9 ± 123.4 261.4 ± 117.0 −45.9 ± 19.0 <0.001 0.922
SG 502.3 ± 103.5 344.1 ± 209.8 −47.1 ± 24.9 0.002
Serum calcium (mg/dl) RYGB 9.5 ± 0.5 9.4 ± 0.3 −1.8 ± 4.9 0.312 0.423
SG 9.6 ± 0.5 9.6 ± 0.3 0.2 ± 5.5 0.911
Serum 25-hydoxyvitamin D (ng/ml) RYGB 25.5 ± 5.7 29.1 ± 11.2 12.3 ± 35.9 0.333 0.231
SG 31.2 ± 12.7 41.7 ± 16.1 48.3 ± 82.1 0.096
Serum PTH (pg/ml) RYGB 51.1 ± 16.1 50.4 ± 14.4 −3.8 ± 20.8 0.595 0.909
SG 62.9 ± 33.9 52.2 ± 19.6 −5.7 ± 42.9 0.687
P1NP (ng/ml) RYGB 50.6 ± 21.9 105.3 ± 33.2 117.0 ± 64.5 <0.001 0.035
SG 61.1 ± 26.3 91.6 ± 36.9 56.9 ± 49.4 0.005
CTX (ng/ml) RYGB 0.38 ± 0.1 0.99 ± 0.31 158.9 ± 43.3 <0.001 0.211
SG 0.49 ± 0.2 0.94 ± 0.4 106.8 ± 115.7 0.017

RYGB: Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, SG: sleeve gastrectomy; PTH: parathyroid hormone, P1NP: procollagen type 1 N-terminal propeptide; CTX: collagen type 1 cross-linked C-telopeptide