Monday, August 04, 2014

Heart Disease Prevention - Can Weight-Loss Surgery Reverse Diabetes?

People who are overweight and obese have a much higher chance of getting Type-2 diabetes, compared to those with a healthy weight. A paper published online March 31, 2014 in the ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ argued that performing weight-loss surgery on obese patients with Type-2 diabetes could effectively reverse the disease, allowing most of them to stop using insulin and many to stop diabetes medication 3 years later.

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Heart Disease Prevention - Can Weight-Loss Surgery Reverse Diabetes?

1 comment:

  1. Is "reverse" the right word? Isn't the disease brought on by obesity and at least partially cured by weight loss? I would think those people will always be prone to diabetes. Still, though, it's a nice benefit of weight loss. There are so many advantages to a healthy weight, not the least of which being reduced risk of heart disease.
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