Oregon Weight Loss Surgery, LLC previously participated in many research studies and clinical trials. Our patients benefit from these research activities by actively working with us to contribute to the scientific community at-large, helping to answer questions about bariatric surgery and weight loss.
Ongoing & Past Research
https://www.edc.pitt.edu/labs/participants/
LABS participants are encouraged to visit the LABS website for annual visit information, health and wellness tips, bariatric-friendly recipes, and stories of other LABS participants’ experience with their bariatric surgery, follow-up, and study participation – please note that a username and password are NOT required to access the site.
LABS-2 – Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery
The Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) is a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded consortium of six clinical centers, including Oregon Weight Loss Surgery / Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital, and a data coordinating center working in cooperation with NIH scientific staff to plan, develop, and conduct coordinated clinical, epidemiological, and behavioral research in the field of bariatric surgery.
The primary objective of LABS-2 is to use standardized techniques and measures to assess the long-term safety and efficacy of bariatric surgery by comparing post-surgical outcomes to pre-operative status and examining risks and benefits of surgery. LABS-2 also strives to determine the associations between clinical/demographic patient characteristics, components of the surgical procedure, and peri-operative and post-operative care with post-operative risks and changes in patient status.
LABS-3 – Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery diabetes study
LABS-3, which includes selected subsets of patients from the LABS-2 cohort, has been devised to conduct detailed studies of mechanisms involved in weight loss and weight gain, energy expenditure, glucose control, and other aspects of the pathophysiology of obesity and obesity-related complications.
The goal the LABS-3 study is to examine the physiological mechanisms that contribute to improvements of glucose homeostasis in type-2 diabetes mellitus (DM) following gastric bypass Roux-en-Y surgery (GBP).
Future Research
At Oregon Weight Loss Surgery we are committed to studying the disease of obesity. Please check back periodically for future developments.