Bariatric Surgery for Morbid Obesity: Tehran Obesity Treatment Study (TOTS) Rationale and Study Design

Maryam Barzin   ¹ ;   Farhad Hosseinpanah   ¹ , MD ;   Mohammad Ali Motamedi   ¹ , MD ;   Parvin Shapoori   ² , MD ;   Peyman Arian   ³ ;   Maryam Alsadat Daneshpour   ⁴ , PhD ;   Golale Asghari   ⁵ , MS ;   Ahmad Teymoornejad   ³ , MS ;   Ali Eslamifar   ⁶ , MD ;   Davood Khalili   ⁷ , MD PhD ;   Behzad Jodeiri   ³ , MD ;   Shahram Alamdari   ⁸ , MD ;   Fereidoun Azizi   ⁹ , MD ;   Alireza Khalaj   ¹⁰ , MD

¹ Obesity Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

² A Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Rasoul-e-Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

³ Obesity Treatment Center, Faculty of Medicine, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran

⁴ Cellular and Molecular Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

⁵ Nutrition and Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

⁶ Department of Clinical Research, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

⁷ Prevention of Metabolic Disorders Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

⁸ Obesity Research Center, Reaserch Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

⁹ Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

¹⁰ Obesity Treatment Center, Department of Surgery, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran