Association of Amount of Weight Lost After Bariatric Surgery With Intracranial Pressure in Women With Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension.

Background And Objectives: The idiopathic intracranial hypertension randomized controlled weight trial (IIH:WT) established that weight loss through bariatric surgery significantly reduced intracranial pressure when compared with a community weight management intervention. This substudy aimed to evaluate the amount of weight loss required to reduce intracranial pressure and to explore the effect of different bariatric surgical approaches.

Methods: IIH:WT was a multicenter randomized controlled trial.

Nicotinamide riboside has minimal impact on energy metabolism in mouse models of mild obesity.

Supplementation with precursors of NAD has been shown to prevent and reverse insulin resistance, mitochondrial dysfunction, and liver damage in mouse models of diet-induced obesity. We asked whether the beneficial effects of supplementation with the NAD precursor nicotinamide riboside (NR) are dependent on mouse strain. We compared the effects of NR supplementation on whole-body energy metabolism and mitochondrial function in mildly obese C57BL/6N and C57BL/6J mice, two commonly used strains to investigate metabolism.

Metabolic tracing reveals novel adaptations to skeletal muscle cell energy production pathways in response to NAD depletion.

Skeletal muscle is central to whole body metabolic homeostasis, with age and disease impairing its ability to function appropriately to maintain health. Inadequate NAD availability is proposed to contribute to pathophysiology by impairing metabolic energy pathway use. Despite the importance of NAD as a vital redox cofactor in energy production pathways being well-established, the wider impact of disrupted NAD homeostasis on these pathways is unknown.

Nicotinamide Riboside Augments the Aged Human Skeletal Muscle NAD Metabolome and Induces Transcriptomic and Anti-inflammatory Signatures.

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) is modulated by conditions of metabolic stress and has been reported to decline with aging in preclinical models, but human data are sparse. Nicotinamide riboside (NR) supplementation ameliorates metabolic dysfunction in rodents. We aimed to establish whether oral NR supplementation in aged participants can increase the skeletal muscle NAD metabolome and if it can alter muscle mitochondrial bioenergetics.