Weight loss surgery can benefit overweight patients with type 2 diabetes for up to nine years after the procedure, according to a new study.
Long-term follow-up showed that patients continued to have improvements in their diabetes, as well as a reduction in risk factors for cardiovascular disease, the researchers reported.
"Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to serious complications such as heart and kidney disease," said lead investigator Dr. Stacy Brethauer, a bariatric surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic Bariatric & Metabolic Institute in Ohio. "Only about half of diabetics in the United States currently have acceptable control of their blood glucose level."
"Our study, however, shows that 80 percent of the diabetic patients still control their blood glucose five years after their bariatric surgery," Brethauer added in a clinic news release. "Additionally, nearly one-third of gastric bypass patients had normal blood glucose levels off medication for over five years after surgery." http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_140827.html
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