Diabetes
Bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment for the disease
of morbid obesity, and it's not just about weight loss. New studies
published in The New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal
of the American Medical Association not only show improved survival
from heart disease and cancer in patients following bariatric surgery
for morbid obesity, but report a remarkable 73% remission in type
2 diabetes compared with nonsurgical treatments.
Bariatric surgery not only enhances weight loss; it treats the metabolic condition
and improves quality of life and longevity. It's about time that we recognize
the disease of obesity for the multifaceted killer that it is, understand better
why it has become so prevalent in today's society, work on preventative measures,
and treat those already afflicted.
Obesity operation may cure diabetes in many
Surgery patients 5 times more likely to see disease disappear, study says
By Carla K. Johnson |
Science News:
Diabetes May Be Disorder Of Upper Intestine: Surgery May Correct It
ScienceDaily (Mar. 6, 2008) — Growing evidence shows that surgery may effectively cure Type 2 diabetes — an approach that not only may change the way the disease is treated, but that introduces a new way of thinking about diabetes.
updated 6:52 p.m. EST, Tue January 22, 2008
- Story Highlights
- Study: Bariatric surgery more likely than standard care to rid patients of diabetes
- Study is first to directly compare surgery vs. standard care in diabetes patients
- More research needed to see how long remission lasts, who benefits most
- Expert: "This opens an entirely new way of thinking
about diabetes"
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/22/diabetes.obesity.surgery.ap/index.html
Surgery Shows Promise For Treatment of Diabetes
By Rob
Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 4, 2008; Page A01
Rocco Turso was injecting himself with insulin three times a day,
swallowing pills twice daily and restricting his diet. But his diabetes
was still out of control, blurring his vision, making his feet numb
and sapping his energy. So he decided to try an experimental operation.
Within days, his blood sugar was normal and he was off all his medications.
Weight-Loss Surgery to Treat Diabetes
By Katherine
Hobson
Posted February 21, 2008
Mary Stanford knew the deal. Diagnosed with type
2 diabetes 13 years ago at age 33, she was painfully aware that
her weight, which hovered around 250 pounds, was a major factor.
She knew all too well about the hazardous complications of diabetes,
since her father-in-law had struggled with and eventually died of
them. And she recognized that losing just 10 percent of her body
weight would improve her symptoms—but simply couldn't keep
the pounds off. "You know what you're doing to yourself," says
the biotech company senior manager from Port Washington, N.Y. "You
get to a point where it takes a toll on you." Desperate, she
chose gastric bypass surgery in late 2004, when she'd peaked at a
smidgen over 300 pounds. Today, at 46, Stanford weighs 160 and shows
no sign of her disease. Last year, she ran the New York City Marathon.
Diabetes Study Favors Surgery to Treat Obese
By DENISE
GRADY
Published: January 23, 2008
Weight-loss surgery works much better than standard medical therapy
as a treatment for
Type
2 diabetes inobese people, the first study to compare the two
approaches has found.
The Bypass Effect On Diabetes, Cancer
Surgery Can Send Diabetes Into Remission, And May Reduce Risk Of Certain Cancers
April 20, 2008
The Bypass Effect 
An operation performed primarily to reduce weight in the obese has
some startlingly positive side effects on type 2 diabetes, sleep
apnea, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease and even
cancer. Lesley Stahl reports.
(CBS) It's pretty well known to doctors that the
most successful treatment for obesity is surgery, especially
the gastric bypass operation. But here's something the medical
world is just realizing: that the gastric bypass operation has
other even more dramatic effects. It can force type 2 diabetes
into almost instant remission and it appears to reduce the risk
of cancer.
Diabetes Health Center
Weight Loss Surgery Treats Diabetes
Study Shows Gastric Banding Surgery More Effective Than Lifestyle-Modification
Programs
By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang,
MD
Jan. 22, 2008 -- Weight
loss surgery proved to be a highly effective treatment for type
2 diabetes in a newly published study, with almost three out
of four surgically treated patients showing no evidence of the disease
two years later.
Patients who had gastric banding surgery lost an average of 20% of
their body weight within two years. That compares with less than
2% during the same time period in patients who had conventional therapy
that focused on intensive lifestyle-modification programs involving
diet and physical
activity. Many of the patients were on diabetes medications.
Study: Stomach banding beats drugs in curing diabetes
Physicians say it may be time to consider bariatric surgery for all
obese patients with the disease.
January 23, 2008
Stomach-banding surgery for weight loss cured nearly three-quarters
of obese patients with Type 2 diabetes, five times as many as could
be cured by medications, dieting and lifestyle changes, Australian
researchers will report Wednesday in the Journal of the American
Medical Assn.
In the first head-to-head comparison of banding and conventional
weight-loss techniques, obesity specialist John B. Dixon of Monash
University in Melbourne and his colleagues found that patients receiving
the band lost an average of 20.7% of their body weight, while those
on a medically supervised diet lost 1.3%.
