Copper Deficiency After Gastric Bypass Surgery

Abstract

after adjusting by log-transformed age and BMI. Similarly, the quantitative trait diastolic arterial blood pressure was significantly associated with the variant (P < 0.023): homozygous CC: 74.2 ± 0.6, heterozygous CT: 76.2 ± 0.7 and homozygous TT: 78.1 ± 1.7 mm Hg. In summary, the findings of Lieb et al. can also be generalized to Argentinean population, as an example of replication in a different group of European descent. However, these results do not exclude other possible effects of the variants of the FAAH on metabolic syndrome–related phenotypes, for instance arterial blood pressure or plasma triglycerides. These data, which need to be confirmed in larger samples, may be of interest because the use of FAAH as a therapeutic target in hypertension is under evaluation not only because of the potential beneficial effect of endocannabinoid-related drugs on arterial blood pressure but also on the development of the hypertensive cardiac hypertrophy (2,3).