1 Osteoporosis Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Service, Internal Medicine Ward, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9124001, Israel.
2 Department of Human Metabolism and Nutrition, Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 9124001, Israel.
3 Department of Nutrition, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem 9124001, Israel.
4 Department of Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC H4B 1R6, Canada.
5 Department of Surgery, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9124001, Israel.
6 Department of Pediatrics, Rambam Medical Center, Technion School of Medicine, Haifa 3200003, Israel.

Bariatric surgery (BS) can have negative effects on bone health. Bone microarchitecture quality evaluation using the trabecular bone score (TBS) has not been described in patients after sleeve gastrectomy (SG). To test the hypothesis that the TBS is clinically useful for this population, we evaluated changes in bone mineral density (BMD) and the TBS in a longitudinal cohort study following SG. The measurements before surgery and after 12 and 24 postoperative months were as follows: weight,...