Characteristics (mean ± SD) of female Roux-en-Y gastric bypass patients with a poor weight loss response after surgery (poor responders) and of patients with a good weight loss response (good responders).

BMI = body mass index* Difference between poor responders and good responders (p# Patients were invited based on BMI 10 yrs after surgery, as collected by Edholm et al [18]. Two of the patients who had a BMI 2), but gained weight till the start of the current study, resulting in a BMI >30 when they visited the research centre (BMI 30.8 and 35.7 kg/m2, respectively). All but one of the good responders reported a BMI between 28 and 30 kg/m2. This one participant had a particular lower BMI.Characteristics (mean ± SD) of female Roux-en-Y gastric bypass patients with a poor weight loss response after surgery (poor responders) and of patients with a good weight loss response (good responders).