1) The study measured gastric compliance and sensory responses to gastric distension in bulimia nervosa (BN) patients and controls, both before and after consuming a liquid meal.
2) They found that post-meal gastric relaxation, as measured by the rise in gastric volume, was blunted in BN patients compared to controls.
3) However, gastric compliance curves, which relate gastric volume to pressure, appeared normal in BN patients both before and after the meal.
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Satiety Disturbances in Bulimia Nervosa
1. Assessment of Gastric Compliance
Response to a Meal: Gastric Sensory
Motor Function in Bulimia Nervosa
JL Guss, HR Kissileff, E Zimmerli, M Devlin, B Walsh
Obesity Research Center-St Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital
Columbia University
2. Bulimia Nervosa (BN)-A Satiety Disturbance?
F Episodes of uncontrolled hyperphagia
F Rate of eating does not decline during meals
F Eat more than controls to reach same fullness
F Post-prandial CCK-release is diminished
3. Gastric Relaxation (Accommodation)
F Adaptive relaxation: Postprandial gastric
relaxation in response to ingested nutrient
F Increases gastric volume relative to fasting
F Impaired in BN
4. Impaired Relaxation Response to Food
Fundic Accommodation
(receptive relaxation)
Meal
Impaired Accommodation
food distributed to antrum
10. Aim
F To determine whether meal-induced changes
in motor-sensory responses to gastric
distension are disturbed in BN.
F To test motor-sensory response to distension
by measuring gastric compliance: change in
gastric volume as a function of changing
pressure.
11. Hypothesis
F Motor and sensory response to the filling
effect of a large meal is impaired in BN.
12. Gastric Compliance
F Volume response to an imposed pressure
F Volume change at pressure increment pre & post meal
l Intragastric volume response on y-axis
l Imposed incremental pressure on x-axis
l Compliance = slope of the pressure-volume curve
F Measurement=response to increased isobaric stepwise
distension
F Accomplished with a barostat device: applies fixed
pressure & records corresponding gastric volume
13. Procedure
F Balloon swallowed @ 1500 hrs, after 6 hr fast
F MDP-minimal distending pressure- obtained
F Increase distending pressure by 2 mmHg per 2 min,
starting at minimal distending pressure (MDP)
F Barostat records balloon volume every second
F Subjects rate abdominal sensation on 6-pt scale at
each pressure
F Distensions end when volume =750mL or if subject
reports pain
F 200cc Ensure consumed po
F Process repeated from minimal distending pressure
16. Slope of Sensation vs Pressure
12
Preprandial
B Patients
10 B
C Controls
C C
8 B C B
B C C C
Sensation
6 B C B
C B
4 B C C
B B
2 C B
0
10 12 14 16 18 20 22
Pressure
22. Summary of Results
F Post meal gastric relaxation is blunted in BN.
F Gastric compliance appears normal in BN.
Editor's Notes
The following observations have led us to hypothesize that patients with BN have a satiety deficiency
Describe populations here
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Walsh same metric how much food to get to different levels bulimics less sensitive than controls Schwartz not same as how much to get to next JND Walsh does max mean same to both groups? Smith lack of early significance in fullness important. Schwartz -From other two slide show what happens with non binge on same metric Janet should be no diff when told not to binge Clamp balloon at different percentages measure intake with different balloon volumes
The percent of initial counts remaining in the stomach 90 min after consuming the drink was 18.8% higher in patients than in controls: (patients: n = 15, mean = 66.69% 賊 1.59 SE) (controls: n = 16, mean = 47.80% 賊 2.74 SE) difference: 18.8% 賊 3.00 SED; t = 5.96, p = .0001) Emptying rates were 1.29 g/min (賊 0.20 SED; t = 5.96, P < 0.0001) slower in patients with BN (mean = 2.27 g/min 賊 0.1 SE) than in controls (3.6 g/min 賊 0.18 SE).
Significantly less of the drink remained in patients stomachs after treatment than before (n = 9, mean = 14.5% 賊 3.5 SE, t = 4.14, P = 0.014). The emptying rate improved by .99 g/min (賊 0.24 SED; t = 4.14, P = 0.01), from a mean of 2.27 g/min ( 賊 0.11 SE), to a mean of 3.14 g/min (賊 0.17 SE).