Researchers from the Day Hospital of Metabolic Diseases and Diabetology of the Catholic University in Rome have discovered that Bariatric weight loss surgery could serve as an effect treatment for type 2 diabetes.
In a study report published last month, researchers explained that for some obese patients Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and biliopancreatic diversion procedures can reduce or even eliminate type 2 diabetes symptoms.
For the study, the researchers examined 30 obese adults between the ages of 30 and 60 who underwent either of the two weight loss surgery procedures. All of the participants had a been diagnosed with diabetes for at least five years. Two years after the surgery 95 percent of patients who had undergone biliopancreatic-diversion surgery and 75 percent of those who had a gastric bypass enjoyed a complete remission of diabetes symptoms.
These results were compared to zero percent change in a control group.
"In severely obese patients with type 2 diabetes, bariatric surgery resulted in better glucose control than did medical therapy. Preoperative BMI and weight loss did not predict the improvement in hyperglycemia after these procedures," the team summarized in their report.
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