Researchers at Imperial College London found that only 41 percent of patients achieve diabetes remission following bariatric surgery when more stringent criteria are used, according to findings published in the British Journal of Surgery.
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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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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