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Bariatric Surgery: later-stage trial registry

6 of 16 indexed Bariatric Surgery trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 3-4.

Corpus placement: #1,060 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

16 US clinical trials · 6 currently recruiting · #1,060 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Bariatric Surgery: 16 US clinical trials tracked, 6 recruiting.

Bariatric Surgery is the subject of 16 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 6 of them currently open to new participants. 4 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 2 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Brigham and Women's Hospital, running 3 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition bariatric-surgery

OPEN 6 | RECR 38% | LATE 4 | EARLY 2 | RANK #1060 | SPON 3

Nearest open-share peer: Acute-graft-versus-host Disease (38% recruiting · 8 trials)

Adolescent62.5%Alcohol Intoxication56.3%AL Amyloidosis43.8%Bariatric Surgery (this)38%Allergy18.8%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Bariatric Surgery

Bariatric Surgery lists 6 open slots (38% of 16 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Bariatric Surgery on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Bariatric Surgery is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    6 of 16 indexed trials (37.5%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. One sponsor concentrates Bariatric Surgery research.

    Brigham and Women's Hospital accounts for 3 of 16 trials (18.8%). 14 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Most Bariatric Surgery trials plan to enrol fewer than 100 people.

    Median target enrolment is 44 among the 16 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 12 of those (75%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Bariatric Surgery research is mostly interventional.

    12 interventional and 4 observational studies make up this index (75% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 11Phase 21Phase 31Phase 43

Open and recent trials

16 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING Phase 4 260 participants

Simethicone as Part of ERAS in Bariatric Surgery Patients

Madigan Army Medical Center

NCT06812832

RECRUITING Phase 2 150 participants

Oral Acetaminophen for Post-Op Pain Management in Bariatric Surgery Patients

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

NCT06658574

RECRUITING NA 54 participants

Lexion AP 50/30 Warmed Humidified Real Time CO2 Insufflation vs Airseal Recirculated CO2/Air Insufflation in Minimally Invasive Bariatric (Gastric Bypass) Surgery

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

NCT05838300

RECRUITING Phase 4 50 participants

2024 Tirzepatide-Bariatric Surgery

Marlene Starr

NCT06721507

RECRUITING NA 44 participants

Mechanistic and Clinical Outcomes of a Surgical Innovation Aimed at Minimizing GERD Associated With VSG (INNOVATE-VSG)

University of California, Irvine

NCT06783751

RECRUITING Phase 1 40 participants

Physiologic Response to Bariatric Surgery and the Impact of Adjunct Semaglutide in Adolescents

University of Colorado, Denver

NCT06575738

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 44 participants

Role of Dietary Habits in Efficacy of Bariatric Surgery - Study C

Brigham and Women's Hospital

NCT03482986

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING 44 participants

Role of Dietary Habits in Efficacy of Bariatric Surgery - Study B

Brigham and Women's Hospital

NCT03467906

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 4 28 participants

Glucagon Dose-Response in Patients With Post-Bariatric Hypoglycemia

Joslin Diabetes Center

NCT06986603

COMPLETED NA 300 participants

Study on Impact of Lifestyle Change and Weight Loss Before Bariatric Surgery

Duquesne University

NCT00623792

COMPLETED 290 participants

Role of Dietary Habits in Efficacy of Bariatric Surgery - Study A

Brigham and Women's Hospital

NCT03470558

COMPLETED NA 58 participants

Gaining Optimism After Weight Loss Surgery (GOALS) II

Massachusetts General Hospital

NCT04868032

COMPLETED 40 participants

Bone Loss After Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation

NCT00975013

COMPLETED NA 33 participants

Bariatric Scalable Internet Treatments

Yale University

NCT03680703

COMPLETED 31 participants

Impact of Monthly High Dose Oral Cholecalciferol on Serum 25 Hydroxy Vitamin D Levels in Bariatric Surgery Subjects

Texas Tech University

NCT01871389

COMPLETED Phase 3 20 participants

Effects of Gastric Bypass on Blood Levels of Duloxetine

Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, North Dakota

NCT00989157

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 1
Phase 2 1
Phase 3 1
Phase 4 3

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Bariatric Surgery records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Guided Self-Help Behavioral Weight Loss Behavioral
1 trials
Positive Psychology-Motivational Interviewing Behavioral
1 trials
Dietary habits Other
1 trials
Preoperative lifestyle Intervention Behavioral
1 trials
Glucagon for Injection (Fresenius Kabi USA) Drug
1 trials
In-laboratory assessment Other
1 trials
Dietary habits plan Behavioral
1 trials
Simethicone 80 MG Drug
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Bariatric Surgery trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Massachusetts 5 trials
Texas 2 trials
Wisconsin 1 trials
Washington 1 trials
Pennsylvania 1 trials
New Jersey 1 trials
North Dakota 1 trials
Kentucky 1 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Bariatric Surgery page

16 registered trials, 6 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Bariatric Surgery condition card totals 16 registered trials; most-linked intervention Guided Self-Help Behavioral Weight Loss; top US site state Massachusetts. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.