Can Bariatric Surgery Alleviate Diabetes?
June 13, 2011, by Mark A. Colquitt, MD, FACS, FASMBSCan bariatric surgery alleviate diabetes? For those who lose weight and maintain weight loss, the answer is “yes.”
Obesity and Type 2 diabetes often go hand in hand. An obese person is twice as likely to develop Type 2 diabetes, and a morbidly obese person is ten times more likely. Millions of Americans have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes; of those, nearly 90 percent are overweight.
For more about alleviation of diabetes through bariatric surgery, visit Foothills Weight Loss Specialists’ “Weighing In” blog.
http://blog.foothillsweightloss.com/2010/02/15/can-bariatric-surgery-alleviate-diabetes/
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