Gastric bypass surgery is the most effective therapy to treat type 2 diabetes – News-Medical.Net

Gastric bypass surgery is the most effective therapy to treat or reverse type 2 diabetes in severely obese patients. Many achieve remission of diabetes following surgery and no longer require diabetes medications.
This observation has led to the theory that gastric bypass surgery has unique, weight loss-independent effects in treating diabetes, but this has remained a long-standing question in the field.
Now, new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates tha…

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