Bariatric surgery protects against cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis: Bariatric surgery, a gastrointestinal surgery for weight loss and  for uncontrolled diabetes, decreases MiR-29 expression, activates wnt- signaling and its components GSK3B, ICAT/CTNNBIP1, HBP1, and GLIS2, attenuates pathologic hypertrophy, inhibits fibrosis of the heart tissue, and improves cardiac function via upregulation of its target gene, 1/May/2019, 12.48 am