A New Link: Laparoscopic Gastric Banding and Reduction in Insulin Resistance

Dr. Joan Carroll is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. Her research focuses on the cardiovascular and endocrine effects of obesity. As part of the North Texas Healthy Heart Study, she is studying ethnic differences in visceral fat distribution and its relationship to inflammatory risk markers and anthropometric measures of body composition. As part of the DREAMS (Diabetes Research, Education, and Metabolic Studies) project, Dr. Carroll and colleagues studied patients before and for one year after bariatric surgery using the laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding procedure.

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Robert E. Grant is the Corporate Vice President and President of Allergan Medical, a position he has held since joining Allergan in June of 2006.

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