Good news for obese patients with diabetes

According to a study that can be of most obese patients with diabetes, to get rid of the disease through surgery to lose weight, it allows the process to circumvent part of the stomach (stomach stapling) for more than 80% of patients the success of diabetes treatment drugs. And the report published in the journal Archives of Surgery reviewed previous studies, led by Major Rick Research Institute of Cardiovascular Fergie at the University of Amsterdam, who said that «the discovery beyond what was possible with more traditional medicines for the treatment of disease». The Major's «Reuters Health» «In practice, the model can be only a very small group of individuals are robust to lose enough weight to treat type II diabetes», referring to the more common types of diabetes. And collection of major and colleagues analyzed data from nine studies on patients with diabetes who conducted the stomach stapling or gastric operations striping that is reduce the size of the stomach by an adjustable bar.
The eight studies included between 23 and 177 patients, included in the last 82 thousand people. The study followed all patients for at least a year. After undergoing surgery for stomach stapling enables 83% of patients stop taking diabetes drugs, some of them within days of the end of surgery. It also enables 62% of those who have undergone gastric surgery striping of stopping treatment.
The head of the program of weight loss at the University of Wisconsin, John Gould «should be considered surgery the first phase of treatment for patients with diabetes, obese people», said that about 90% of cases as a result of excess weight, although not all patients with diabetes are eligible to undergo surgery to lose weight, not clear also how long can that continue to impact the surgery in diabetes.
The study found listed in the report that after 10 years of surgery, one third of people who have diminished the degree of diabetes are still controlled well in the proportions of sugar in the blood. Facing surgery, of course, the possibility of complications do not occur with drug therapy. The study followed patients for about a month after the surgery, and found that 7% of them have suffered some of the problems the most prominent of a number of minor wound infections. However, severe bleeding, kidney failure and other serious complications, and took place between more than 2% of them. Other side effects include nausea and some sensitivities to certain foods, and also increase the weight of some patients, again with the passage of time. Gould said that «the initial cost of the surgery compared to the ongoing cost of the treatment of diabetes and other harmful health effects of obesity, can be compensated after the 18 months to two years». The «cost will be huge at first, but given them more to think that if we can cure rather than treatment of complications we will provide money in the long term».

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