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Bariatric Surgery Dramatically Outperforms Standard Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes

by Todd Leddy on March 28th, 2012

NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN

In the first published study of its kind, researchers from the Catholic University/Policlinico Gemelli in Rome, Italy, and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center found that bariatric surgery dramatically outperforms standard medical treatment of severe type 2 diabetes. The study’s authors report that most bariatric surgery patients were able to discontinue all diabetes medications and maintain disease remission for the two-year study period, while none of those randomly assigned to receive standard medical treatment did. Learn more at http://bit.ly/HeGclS.

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