Some previous studies have found that up to 80 percent of diabetes patients went into remission following bariatric surgery. This study revisited previous data on 209 patients with type 2 diabetes using the American Diabetes Association’s recently updated diabetes remission definition. They found the remission rates were 40.6 percent for gastric bypass, 26 percent for sleeve gastrectomy and 7 percent for gastric banding.
“Using the new criteria, we don’t get such eye-catching figures as some that have been quoted in recent years,” said Dr Carel le Roux, from the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London, who led the study, in a news release. “But it’s clear that weight loss surgery, particularly gastric bypass, has a significant beneficial effect on glucose control.”
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/icl-srw010412.php
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