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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2021 Apr;29(4):636–644. doi: 10.1002/oby.23107

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Figure 1:

Mechanisms through which bariatric surgery may contribute to reduced asthma symptoms, including airway inflammation, remodeling and AHR, in addition to specific weight-loss effects. While postsurgical gut microbiome changes and possibly airway microbiome changes could impact metabolic syndrome and/or metabolic changes, more studies that explore their associations and possible causality are needed.