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ArticleThe Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism2026

Adiposome Lipidomic Shifts Following Bariatric Surgery in Association With Weight Loss and Cardiometabolic Benefit.

Elsayed Metwally, Lundon Burton, Imaduddin Mirza, Mohammed H Morsy, Giorgia Scichilone, Amro Mostafa, Yuko Shimotake, Melani Lighter, Francesco M Bianco, Chandra Hassan and 3 more

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Elsayed MetwallyDepartment of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Lundon BurtonDepartment of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Imaduddin MirzaDepartment of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Mohammed H MorsyDepartment of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Giorgia ScichiloneDepartment of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Amro MostafaDepartment of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Yuko ShimotakeDepartment of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Melani LighterDepartment of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Francesco M BiancoDepartment of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Chandra HassanDepartment of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Mario A MasrurDepartment of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Brian T LaydenDepartment of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2176-5654
Abeer M MahmoudDepartment of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0295-6706

Funding

Role of Adiposomes in Diabetes-Associated Endothelial Dysfunction and Restorative Effects of Exercise and Metabolic SurgeryR01HL161386 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · 2022 to 2025
$2.9M
National Institute of HealthNHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL161386
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Abstract

contextAdiposomes carry bioactive lipids that shape systemic metabolism and vascular function.

objectiveBuilding on our previous findings that obese adiposomes are ceramide/free fatty acid-enriched and linked to dysfunction, we tested whether bariatric surgery remodels adiposome lipidomes and whether these shifts track with metabolic and vascular improvements.

methodsTwenty-three obese individuals were assessed before and after bariatric surgery. Clinical evaluations included body mass index (BMI), body composition, glycemic markers, inflammatory markers, and vascular function. Adipose tissue biopsies were collected, and adiposomes were isolated for non-targeted lipidomic analysis using mass spectrometry.

resultsBariatric surgery induced significant reductions in BMI, visceral fat, HOMA-IR, inflammatory markers, and systolic blood pressure, alongside marked improvements in vascular function. Adiposome lipidomics identified 550 species across 19 classes; 124 increased and 66 decreased after surgery. Class-level shifts showed decreases in triglycerides, diglycerides, cholesteryl esters, phosphatidic acids, fatty acids, and acylcarnitines, with increases in phosphocholines, phosphoethanolamines, lysophosphatidylcholines, sphingomyelins, ultralong-chain ceramides, and fatty acid-hydroxy fatty acids (FAHFAs); these changes were larger in participants with ≥20% BMI reduction. Changes in 36 lipid species correlated with BMI change: triglycerides 18:1/20:4/22:6 positively, and sphingomyelins (SM) d40:1, SM d42:4, and phosphatidylcholine 17:0/18:2 inversely. Improvements in nitric oxide, vascular reactivity, and adiponectin tracked with rises in ultralong-chain ceramide/FAHFAs/phospholipids and declines in acylcarnitine/cholesterol esters/diacylglycerols/phosphatidic acids. Machine learning models predicted BMI from lipid features with >80% accuracy (R2 >0.90; mean absolute error <0.3), highlighting SM d40:1, SM d42:4, and fatty acid 17:1 as top contributors. Pathway enrichment analysis linked these changes to sphingolipid signaling and glycerophospholipid metabolism.

conclusionBariatric surgery remodels adiposome lipids, and these shifts align with improvements in cardiometabolic risk markers.

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Adipose TissueBariatric SurgeryLipid MetabolismObesityObesity, MorbidWeight LossAdultBody Mass IndexFemaleHumansLipidomicsLipidsMaleMiddle AgedLipidsadiposomesbariatric surgerycardiometabolic riskextracellular vesicleslipidomicsobesity

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PMID41137449
PMCPMC13017757

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