U.S., March 11 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07461610) titled 'Stool Analysis After Sleeve Gastrectomy vs Gastric Bypass' on March 04.
Brief Summary: The goal of this observational study is to learn whether routine stool tests can detect changes in gut function 6 months after two common types of weight loss surgery: sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass (including mini gastric bypass and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass). The main questions it aims to answer are:
Do stool tests show more signs of undigested food or carbohydrate malabsorption after gastric bypass compared to sleeve gastrectomy?
Do signs of gut inflammation in stool (like fecal calprotectin) decrease after surgery, and does this relat...