Physical Fitness and Nutrition Intake in Bariatric Surgery Population
Completed
Conditions studied: Obesity
In brief
The purpose of this research study is to determine how bariatric surgery affects physical activity and nutrient intake. This research study is being done because the investigators want to determine better recommendations to provide to bariatric surgery patients.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02070354
- Run by
- Geisinger Clinic
- People needed
- 73
- Starts
- 2009-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-02-12
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Competent patients enrolled in the pre- or post-operative bariatric surgery program at the Center for Nutrition and Weight Management at GMC, Danville, PA.
- Ability to perform a 6 Minute Walk Test.
- Aged 18 through 70.
- Willingness to receive dietary recall phone calls and accessibility to a telephone.
You may not qualify if…
- Patients with severe lung disease requiring oxygen therapy.
- Pulmonary embolus or pulmonary infarction.
- Patients with cardiopulmonary disease (e.g., prior myocardial infarction, coronary artery bypass, or vascular stent).
- Unstable angina.
- Uncontrolled cardiac dysrhythmias causing symptoms or hemodynamic compromise.
- Patients with any health reason that limits walking.
- Patients with a temporary injury that limits walking.
- Patients who use a wheelchair, other assistive device for walking, or have difficulty ambulating during activities of daily living.
- Patients predetermined to be illiterate or incompetent.
- Patients who are currently pregnant or have been pregnant at any time since bariatric surgery.
- Tobacco use.
- Patients with electronic defibrillators or other embedded electronic medical devices.
- Acute systemic infection, accompanied by fever, body aches, or swollen lymph glands
- Patients who have undergone revisional bariatric surgery.
Where it is running
- Geisinger Clinic — Danville, Pennsylvania, United States
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