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Walter J. Pories is affiliated with East Carolina University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with substantial contributions to surgery and related subfields such as physiology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, pharmacy, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

The research topics covered extensively by Walter J. Pories include bariatric surgery and outcomes, diet and metabolism studies, obesity and health practices, body contouring and surgery, nutrition and health in aging, adipose tissue and metabolism, and cardiovascular and exercise physiology.

They have contributed to multiple publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Obesity Surgery
  • Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
  • Circulation
  • Obesity

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Walter J. Pories include:

  • "Diabetes Remission Status During Seven-year Follow-up of the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery Study" (2020, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism)
  • "Examining the Rates of Obesity and Bariatric Surgery in the United States" (2021, Obesity Surgery)
  • "Who Would Have Thought It?" (2023, Obesity Surgery)
  • "Postbariatric hypoglycemia: symptom patterns and associated risk factors in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery study" (2021, Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases)
  • "Association between weight loss and serum biomarkers with risk of incident cancer in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery cohort" (2020, Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Walter J. Pories include Joseph A. Houmard, Laura E. Matarese, Eric J. DeMaria, Damon L. Swift, and Joshua E. McGee.

Best Publications

  • Bariatric surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Henry Buchwald;Yoav Avidor;Eugene Braunwald;Michael D. Jensen

  • Who would have thought it? An operation proves to be the most effective therapy for adult-onset diabetes mellitus.

    Walter J. Pories;Melvin S. Swanson;Kenneth G. MacDonald;Stuart B. Long

  • Weight and type 2 diabetes after bariatric surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Henry Buchwald;Rhonda Estok;Kyle Fahrbach;Deirdre Banel

  • Perioperative safety in the longitudinal assessment of bariatric surgery.

    David Reed Flum;Steven H. Belle;Wendy C. King;Abdus S. Wahed

  • Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gene expression in human tissues. Effects of obesity, weight loss, and regulation by insulin and glucocorticoids.

    Antonio J. Vidal-Puig;Robert Considine;Mercedes Jimenez-Liñan;Ariel Werman

  • Weight change and health outcomes at 3 years after bariatric surgery among individuals with severe obesity.

    Anita P. Courcoulas;Nicholas J. Christian;Steven H. Belle;Paul D. Berk

  • The gastric bypass operation reduces the progression and mortality of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus☆

    Kenneth G. MacDonald;Stuart D. Long;Melvin S. Swanson;Brenda M. Brown

  • Seven-Year Weight Trajectories and Health Outcomes in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) Study.

    Anita P. Courcoulas;Wendy C. King;Steven H. Belle;Paul Berk

  • Prevalence of alcohol use disorders before and after bariatric surgery

    Wendy C. King;Jia-Yuh Chen;James E. Mitchell;Melissa A. Kalarchian

  • Muscle fiber type is associated with obesity and weight loss.

    Charles J. Tanner;Hisham A. Barakat;G. Lynis Dohm;Walter J. Pories

  • Bariatric surgery. A systematic review and meta-analysis

    H. Buchwald;Y. Avidor;E. Braunwald

  • Surgical treatment of obesity and its effect on diabetes: 10-y follow-up

    W J Pories;K G MacDonald;E J Morgan;M K Sinha

  • Bariatric Surgery: Risks and Rewards

    Walter J. Pories

  • Adiponectin is not altered with exercise training despite enhanced insulin action

    Matthew W. Hulver;Donghai Zheng;Charles J. Tanner;Joseph A. Houmard

  • Insulin receptor kinase in human skeletal muscle from obese subjects with and without noninsulin dependent diabetes.

    J F Caro;M K Sinha;S M Raju;O Ittoop

  • Skeletal Muscle Lipid Metabolism with Obesity

    Matthew W. Hulver;Jason R. Berggren;Ronald N. Cortright;Ronald W. Dudek

  • An in vitro human muscle preparation suitable for metabolic studies. Decreased insulin stimulation of glucose transport in muscle from morbidly obese and diabetic subjects.

    G L Dohm;E B Tapscott;W J Pories;D J Dabbs

  • Liver pathology in morbidly obese patients with and without diabetes.

    J. F. Silverman;K. F. O'Brien;S. Long;N. Leggett

  • A New Paradigm for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Could It Be a Disease of the Foregut?

    Matthew Hickey;Walter Pories;Kenneth MacDonald;Kelly Cory

  • Skeletal muscle fiber composition is related to adiposity and in vitro glucose transport rate in humans

    M. S. Hickey;J. O. Carey;J. L. Azevedo;J. A. Houmard

Frequent Co-Authors

James E. Mitchell
James E. Mitchell University of North Dakota
David R. Flum
David R. Flum University of Washington
G. Lynis Dohm
G. Lynis Dohm East Carolina University
Steven H. Belle
Steven H. Belle University of Pittsburgh
Joseph A. Houmard
Joseph A. Houmard East Carolina University
Susan Z. Yanovski
Susan Z. Yanovski National Institutes of Health
Andrew L. Warshaw
Andrew L. Warshaw Harvard University
Alfred Cuschieri
Alfred Cuschieri University of Dundee
John L. Cameron
John L. Cameron Johns Hopkins University
Charles M. Balch
Charles M. Balch The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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