TY - THES N2 - With obesity rates steadily increasing over time, a thorough understanding of the causes and factors that perpetuate this condition is essential to finding effective treatment options. The difficulties people experience with inducing and maintaining weight loss belie the complex nature of the homeostatic mechanisms governing body weight and the need for treatment modalities that extend beyond lifestyle modification, pharmacologic treatment, and bariatric surgery. DO - 10.6083/bagx-jp79 DO - DOI AB - With obesity rates steadily increasing over time, a thorough understanding of the causes and factors that perpetuate this condition is essential to finding effective treatment options. The difficulties people experience with inducing and maintaining weight loss belie the complex nature of the homeostatic mechanisms governing body weight and the need for treatment modalities that extend beyond lifestyle modification, pharmacologic treatment, and bariatric surgery. T1 - Relationships between leptin levels, body composition, and glucometabolic parameters as a function of sex and bariatric surgery procedure type DA - 2019 AU - Banks, Josie L1 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7725/files/Banks.Josie.2019.pdf PB - Marylhurst University: Oregon Health and Science University PY - 2019 ID - 7725 L4 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7725/files/Banks.Josie.2019.pdf KW - Weight Loss KW - Leptin KW - Bariatric Surgery KW - Obesity KW - Insulin Resistance KW - Body Composition TI - Relationships between leptin levels, body composition, and glucometabolic parameters as a function of sex and bariatric surgery procedure type Y1 - 2019 L2 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7725/files/Banks.Josie.2019.pdf LK - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7725/files/Banks.Josie.2019.pdf UR - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7725/files/Banks.Josie.2019.pdf ER -