Bariatric Surgery as a Treatment for Diabetes
UCSF Bariatric Surgery - January 23, 2008
The NY Times reports on a recent study comparing medical therapy vs. weight-loss surgery as a treatment for Type 2 Diabetes:
Weight-loss surgery works much better than standard medical therapy as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes in obese people, the first study to compare the two approaches has found.
The study, of 60 patients, showed that 73 percent of those who had surgery had complete remissions of diabetes, meaning all signs of the disease went away. By contrast, the remission rate was only 13 percent in those given conventional treatment, which included intensive counseling on diet and [...]