July 16, 2009 Probiotics may improve weight loss and other outcomes after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RNYGB) surgery, according to the results of a prospective, randomized trial reported in the July issue of the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery.
"Surprisingly, the probiotic group attained a significantly greater percent of excess weight loss than that of [the] control group," senior author John M. Morton, MD, from the Surgery Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Stanford University School of Medicine in California, said in a news release.
