- Researchers report that more than half of the people in a retrospective study went into remission from type 2 diabetes after having weight loss surgery.
- They added that the study participants who had gastric bypass surgery had less need for diabetes medications after their procedure.
- Experts say weight loss surgery is safe but emphasize that people still need to adopt lifestyle changes such as healthy diets and exercise programs after their procedure.
More than half of people with type 2 diabetes who have weight loss surgery go into remission from their disease.
That’s according to research presented today at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) annual meeting.
The findings, which haven’t been published yet in a peer review journal, report that people with type 2 diabetes who underwent gastric bypass had a shorter duration of disease and less need for diabetes medications following surgery.
“This study shows that diabetes remission is not fully contingent on weight loss after gastric bypass surgery,” Dr. Omar Ghanem, the lead author of the study and a metabolic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, said in a press statement.
“The key is to maintain close monitoring and efficient management of diabetes after surgery,” he added. “Metabolic surgery is not a magic pill, but it offers perhaps the only chance for many people to rid themselves of diabetes and its associated complications once and for all.”
The research involved a retrospective study of 815 people with diabetes who had weight loss surgery between 2008 and 2017. Patients were followed for an average of 7 years following their surgery.
The average patient body mass index (BMI) was about 45. This is
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