Jan 09, 2026
From left, Danxia Yu, PhD, Zicheng Wang, MS, Lei Wang, PhD, and Jason Samuels, MD.

In a study led by Danxia Yu, PhD (Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism), it was found that new weight loss drugs and bariatric surgery improve body composition in patients with obesity by inducing a moderate loss of fat-free mass along with a substantial reduction in fat.