Patient and Provider Perceptions About Communication After Bariatric Surgery: A Qualitative Analysis.

Introduction: Communication between patients and providers can strongly influence patient behavior after surgery. The objective of this study was to assess patient and provider perceptions of how communication affected weight-related behaviors after bariatric surgery.

Materials And Methods: Semistructured interviews with bariatric surgery patients and providers were conducted from April-November 2020.

Socioeconomic disparities and bariatric surgery outcomes: A qualitative analysis.

Background: Disparities in socioeconomic status (SES) have been associated with less weight loss after bariatric surgery. The objective of this study was to identify socioeconomic barriers to weight loss after bariatric surgery.

Methods: We performed semi-structured interviews with bariatric surgery patients and providers from April-November 2020.

Impact of COVID-19 on the Postoperative Bariatric Surgery Patient Experience.

Objective: To characterize patient and provider perceptions of the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on weight loss following bariatric surgery.

Background: COVID-19 has disrupted routines and healthcare throughout the United States, but its impact on bariatric surgery patients' postoperative experience is unknown.

Methods: Semistructured interviews with bariatric surgery patients, primary care providers, and health psychologists were conducted from April to November 2020.

Reef-Specific Patterns of Gene Expression Plasticity in Eastern Oysters (Crassostrea virginica).

Understanding the interaction between phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary processes is important for predicting a species' response to changing environment. Strong recurrent selection each generation may be an important process in highly fecund species with broad dispersal and extensive early mortality. We tested whether selection was associated with spatial divergence in gene expression plasticity for osmoregulation in the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica).

Transcriptomic analysis of candidate osmoregulatory genes in the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica.

Background: The eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, is a euryhaline species that can thrive across a wide range of salinities (5-35). As with all estuarine species, individual oysters must be able to regulate their osmotic balance in response to constant temporal variation in salinity. At the population level, recurrent viability selection may be an additional mechanism shaping adaptive osmoregulatory phenotypes at the margins of oyster salinity tolerance.