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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addict Biol. 2016 Aug 31;22(6):1540–1553. doi: 10.1111/adb.12436

Table 1.

Summary of preclinical [P] and clinical [C] studies that have investigated the potential effects of bariatric surgery on alcohol consumption, risk for alcohol use disorder (AUD) and alcohol problems

Studies that indicate increased alcohol consumption and/or risk for AUD and/or alcohol problems Studies that indicate decreased alcohol consumption and/or risk for AUD and/or alcohol problems Studies that indicate no change in alcohol consumption and/or risk for AUD and/or alcohol problems
Bariatric surgery
(not otherwise specified) 		Buffington 2007 (C)
Saules et al. 2010 (C)		 None None
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) Mitchell et al. 2001 (C)*
Ertelt et al. 2008 (C)
Hajnal et al. 2012 (P)
Ivezaj et al. 2012 (C)
King et al. 2012 (C)
Suzuki et al. 2012 (C)
Thanos et al. 2012 (P)
Conason et al. 2013 (C)
Culler-Barboza et al. 2014 (C)
Davis et al. 2013 (P)
Östlund et al. 2013 (C)
Polston et al. 2013 (P)
Svensson et al. 2013 (C)
Wee et al. 2013 (C)
Pepino et al. 2015 (C)		 Mitchell et al. 2001 (C)*
Davis et al. 2012 (P,C)
Lent et al. 2013 (C)
Wee et al. 2013 (C)
Alfonsson et al. 2014 (C)
de Araujo Burgos et al. 2015 (C)		 None
Restrictive Procedures Svensson et al. 2013 (C)
Guisado Macias et al. 2003 (C)
Östlund et al. 2013 (C)
Wee et al. 2013 (C)		 Wee et al. 2013 (C)
de Araujo Burgos et al. 2015 (C)
 Changchien et al. 2012 (C)
King et al. 2012 (C)
Conason et al. 2013 (C)
Svensson et al. 2013 (C)
*

Michell et al. (2001) reported increase in alcohol abuse but decrease in alcohol dependence with RYGB.