Weight surgery for diabetes treatment?

Would you ever consider weight surgery to treat your diabetes? Well a recent study indicates it works better than diet or exercising.

That being said I don’t know whether I would want to go through that would you?

Anyway here’s that story:

Weight Surgery Treats Diabetes Better Than Diet, Exercise

In a small study of obese patients, weight-loss surgery was better at keeping type 2 diabetes at bay than diet and exercise alone, researchers report.

In fact, three years after weight-loss surgery, more than two-thirds of those who had a procedure called Roux-en-Y gastric bypass to shrink their stomach didn’t need any diabetes medications.

And one-third of the people who chose a procedure called adjustable gastric banding no longer needed diabetes medications three years after surgery, the study found.

“Surgical treatments show promise for durable, longer-term, type 2 diabetes control in people with obesity,” said lead researcher Dr. Anita Courcoulas, a professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
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The report was published July 1 online in JAMA Surgery.

The researchers recruited 61 obese patients with type 2 diabetes for the study. They were between the ages of 25 and 55 years old.

The researchers randomly assigned the study volunteers to either an intensive weight-loss program for one year followed by a less intensive program for two years, or weight-loss surgery. Some patients had a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and others had adjustable gastric banding.

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass reduces the size of the stomach to a small pouch — about the size of an egg — which reduces the amount of food you can eat. Adjustable gastric banding restricts the size of the opening to the stomach, also decreasing the amount of food you can eat.

In terms of type 2 diabetes, researchers found there was more improvement in the surgical groups than in the lifestyle-only treatment group. Forty percent of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and 29 percent of the adjustable gastric banding patients achieved complete or partial remission of their diabetes at three years, Courcoulas said. No remission was seen in the nonsurgical group..

Read on: https://www.newsmax.com/Health/Health-News/diabetes-surgery-weight-diet/2015/07/01/id/653127/