Ennour-Idrissi, Kaoutar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0962-2020
Laforest, Sofia
Tchernof, André
Durocher, Francine
Diorio, Caroline https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5355-7345
Article History
Received: 7 September 2024
Revised: 30 April 2025
Accepted: 19 May 2025
First Online: 29 May 2025
Competing interests
: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose related to the present work. AT is co-director of the Research Chair in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery at Laval University. AT receives research funding from Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, GI Windows and Biowtin for studies on obesity or bariatric surgery, and acted as consultant for Bausch Health, Biotwin and Novo Nordisk. The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Research Ethics Committee of the CHU de Québec—Laval University Research Center (2012/DR-002-1259).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.