Marroquín’s Lab

Muñoz Mireles, G., Mantzios, M., Schellinger, J. N., Messiah, S. E., and Morales Marroquin, E. Mindful and Intuitive Eating as Tools for Diabetes Prevention and Management: A Review of Potential Mechanisms of Action. Accepted in October 2023 for publication at Mindfulness.

Almandoz, J.P., Xie, L., Tejani, S., Mathew, S., Schellinger, J.N., Marroquin, E., and Messiah, E., Impact of Emplo ment Status and Setting on Body Weight Among People with Obesity. Accepted in September 2023 for publication at Work

Haddad JD, Almandoz JP, Gomez V, Schulman AR, Horton JD, Schellinger J, Messiah SE, Mathew MS, Marroquin EM, Tavakkoli A. Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty: A Practice Pattern Survey. Obes Surg. 2023 Jun 20. doi: 10.1007/s11695-023-06684-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37338795.

Ngenge S, Xie L, McAdams C, Almandoz JP, Mathew MS, Schellinger JN, Kapera O, Marroquin E, Francis J, Kukreja S, Schneider BE, Messiah SE. Depression and Anxiety as Predictors of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Completion Among Ethnically Diverse Patients. Obes Surg. 2023 Jul;33(7):2166-2175. doi: 10.1007/s11695-023-06652-w. Epub 2023 May 22. PMID: 37217806; PMCID: PMC10202355.

Kapera, O., Xie, L., Marroquín, E. M., Ngenge, S., Mathew, M. S., Almandoz, J. P., Schellinger, J., Kukreja, S. S., Schneider, B., McAdams, C., & Messiah, S. E. (2023). The Role of Body Appreciation in the Decision to Complete Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Among Ethnically Diverse Patients. Obesity Surgery, 33(3), 879–889.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-023-06456-y

Murvelashvili, N., Xie, L., Schellinger, J. Mathew, M., Marroquin, E., Lingvay, I., Messiah, S.E., and Almandoz, J. Effectiveness of Semaglutide vs. Liraglutide for Treating Post-Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Weight Recurrence. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2023; 1- 10. doi:10.1002/oby.23736

Xie, L., Almandoz, J.A., Mathew, M.S., Schellinger, J.N., Kapera, O., Ngenge, S., Marroquin, E.M., McAdams, C. Kukreja, S., Schneider, B., and Messiah, S.E. Association Between Patient Satisfaction with Their Patient-Physician Relationship and Completion of Bariatric Surgery by Race and Ethnicity Among US Adults. JAMA, 2022 doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.47431

Tang, M. and Marroquin, E. Material Obesity Potentially Regulating Offspring’s Obesity by Acting Through the Gut Microbiota. Frontiers. 2022. doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.1057424

Fernández-Alonso M, Aguirre Camorlinga A, Messiah SE, Marroquin E. Effect of adding probiotics to an antibiotic intervention on the human gut microbial diversity and composition: a systematic review. J Med Microbiol. 2022 Nov;71(11). doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.001625.
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Graybeal, A.J., Willis, J.L., Morales-Marroquin, E., Tinsley, G.M., Messiah, S.E., & Shaha M. Emerging evidence of the relationship between fat-free mass and ghrelin, glucagon-like peptide-1, and peptide-YY. Nutrition. 2022. doi.org/10.1016/j.nut.2022.111815.

Almandoz JP, Xie L, Schellinger JN, Mathew MS, Marroquin EM, Murvelashvili N, Khatiwada S, Kukreja S, McAdams C, Messiah SE. Changes in body weight, health behaviors, and mental health in adults with obesity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2022 Jun 30. doi: 10.1002/oby.23501.

Messiah, S.E., Xie, L., Mathew, M.S. Morales-Marroquin, E., et al. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Utilization and Safety in the United States. (2022). Obes Surg. doi.org/10.1007/s11695-022-06077-x

Morales-Marroquin E, Khatiwada S, Xie L, et al. Five Year Trends in the Utilization of Robotic Bariatric Surgery Procedures, United States 2015-2019 (2022). Obes Surg. 2022;10.1007/s11695-022-05964-7.  doi:10.1007/s11695-022-05964-7

Knell, G., Li, Q., Morales-Marroquin, E., Drope, J., Gabriel, K.P., & Shuval, K. (2021) Physical Activity, Sleep, and Sedentary Behavior among Successful Long-Term Weight Loss Maintainers: Findings from a U.S. National Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 18, 5557. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115557

Shuval K, Marroquin EM, Li Q, Knell G, Pettee Gabriel K, Drope J, Yaroch AL, Chartier KG, Fennis BM, Qadan M. Long-term weight loss success and the health behaviours of adults in the USA: findings from a nationally representative cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 2021 Jul 14;11(7):e047743. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047743.

Morales-Marroquin, E., Xie, L., Uppuluri, M., Almandoz, J. P., Cruz-Muñoz, N., & Messiah, S. E. (2021). Immunosuppression and Clostridium difficile Infection Risk in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Patients. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, S1072-7515(21)00342-2. Advance online publication.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2021.04.028

Arrona Cardoza P, Spillane MB, & Morales Marroquin E. (2021) Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota: does trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) play a role? Nutr Rev. doi: 10.1093/nutrit/nuab022. PMID: 33942080.

Srikanth, N., Xie, L., Morales-Marroquin, E., Ofori, A., de la Cruz-Munoz, N., & Messiah, S. E. (2021). Intersection of smoking, e-cigarette use, obesity, and metabolic and bariatric surgery: a systematic review of the current state of evidence. J Addict Dis, 1-19. doi:10.1080/10550887.2021.1874817

Morales-Marroquin, E., Xie, L., Meneghini, L., de la Cruz-Munoz, N., Almandoz, J. P., Mathew, S. M., . . . Messiah, S. E. (2021). Type 2 Diabetes and HbA1c Predict All-Cause Post-Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Hospital Readmission. Obesity (Silver Spring), 29(1), 71-78. doi:10.1002/oby.23044

Morales-Marroquin, E., Kohl, H. W., 3rd, Knell, G., de la Cruz-Munoz, N., & Messiah, S. E. (2020). Resistance Training in Post-Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Patients: a Systematic Review. Obes Surg, 30(10), 4071-4080. doi:10.1007/s11695-020-04837-1

Morales-Marroquin, E., Hanson, B., Greathouse, L., de la Cruz-Munoz, N., & Messiah, S. E. (2020). Comparison of methodological approaches to human gut microbiota changes in response to metabolic and bariatric surgery: A systematic review. Obes Rev, 21(8), e13025. doi:10.1111/obr.13025

Morales, E., Chen, J., & Greathouse, K. L. (2019). Compositional Analysis of the Human Microbiome in Cancer Research. Methods Mol Biol, 1928, 299-335. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-9027-6_16

Hwang, P., Morales Marroquin, F.E., Gann, J., Andre, T., McKinley-Barnard, S., Kim, C., . . . Willoughby, D. S (2018). Eight weeks of resistance training in conjunction with glutathione and L-Citrulline supplementation increases lean mass and has no adverse effects on blood clinical safety markers in resistance-trained males. J Int Soc Sports Nutr, 15(1), 30. doi:10.1186/s12970-018-0235-x

Liu, D., Morales, F.E., IglayReger, H.B., Treutelaar, M. K., Rothberg, A.E., Hubal, M.J., . . . Gordon, P.M. (2018). Expression of macrophage genes within skeletal muscle correlates inversely with adiposity and insulin resistance in humans. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab, 43(2), 187-193. doi:10.1139/apnm-2017-0228
*Selected as “the Editor’s Choice” by the Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism Journal

Tinsley, G.M., Forsse, J.S., Morales, E., & Grandjean, P.W. (2018). Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry visceral adipose tissue estimates: reproducibility and impact of pre-assessment diet. Eur J Clin Nutr, 72(4), 609-612.
doi:10.1038/s41430-017-0038-1

Ismaeel, A., Weems, S., McClendon, M., & Morales, F. E. (2018). Interventions Aimed at Decreasing Obesity in Hispanic Children in the First 1000 Days: A Systematic Review. J Immigr Minor Health, 20(5), 1288-1293.
doi:10.1007/s10903-017-0672-7

Morales Marroquín, F.E., & Willoughby, D. (2017) “Exercise and Dietary Factors Affecting the Microbiota: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives” Journal of Nutritional Health and Food Engineering. DOI: 10.15406/jnhfe.2017.06.00199

Morales, F. E. M., Tinsley, G. M., & Gordon, P. M. (2017). Acute and Long-Term Impact of High-Protein Diets on Endocrine and Metabolic Function, Body Composition, and Exercise-Induced Adaptations. J Am Coll Nutr, 36(4), 295-305. doi:10.1080/07315724.2016.1274691
* Selected as “Trending Research” by the Journal of the American College of Nutrition

Morales, F.E., Forsse, J.S., Andre, T.L., McKinley-Barnard, S.K., Hwang, P.S., Anthony, I.G., . . . Willoughby, D. S. (2017). BAIBA Does Not Regulate UCP-3 Expression in Human Skeletal Muscle as a Response to Aerobic Exercise. J Am Coll Nutr, 1-10. doi:10.1080/07315724.2016.1256240

Tinsley, G.M., Morales, E., Forsse, J.S., & Grandjean, P.W. (2017). Impact of Acute Dietary Manipulations on DXA and BIA Body Composition Estimates. Med Sci Sports Exerc, 49(4), 823-832. doi:10.1249/MSS.0000000000001148

Hwang, P.S., Andre, T.L., McKinley-Barnard, S.K., Morales Marroquin, F.E., Gann, J. J., Song, J.J., & Willoughby, D.S. (2017). Resistance Training-Induced Elevations in Muscular Strength in Trained Men Are Maintained After 2 Weeks of Detraining and Not Differentially Affected by Whey Protein Supplementation. J Strength Cond Res, 31(4), 869-881. doi:10.1519/JSC.0000000000001807

Marroquín, F.E.M., & Willoughby, D.S. (2015) “Factors Regulating Uncoupling Protein-3 Expression in Skeletal Muscle”. Journal of Nutritional Health and Food Engineering 3(1): 00101. doi: 10.15406/jnhfe.2015.03.00101

Riojas-Hernandez, A., Bernal-Ramirez, J., Rodriguez-Mier, D., Morales-Marroquin, F. E., Dominguez-Barragan, E. M., Borja-Villa, C., . . . Garcia, N. (2015). Enhanced oxidative stress sensitizes the mitochondrial permeability transition pore to opening in heart from Zucker Fa/fa rats with type 2 diabetes. Life Sci, 141, 32-43.
doi:10.1016/j.lfs.2015.09.018