Surgery

But results from the longitudinal study also confirmed that improvements in insulin sensitivity were unaltered by weight regain following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass…. 

Sleeve gastrectomy is now a treatment option for patients with obesity to help reduce weight and manage diabetes….

Rudy Bilous, MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly, MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP   Lifestyle modification The starting points and mainstays of treatment for type 2 diabetes are diet and other modifications of lifestyle, such as increasing exercise and stopping smoking (Figure 11.1). The major aims are to reduce the weight of obese patients and …

Rudy Bilous, MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly, MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP   Maturity-onset diabetes of the young Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) owes its name to a time when diabetes was defined by age of onset. The nomenclature has stuck, however, and MODY defines usually non-insulin dependent diabetes occurring before the age …

Testing for peripheral neuropathy may provide a way to identify individuals at higher risk of cardiovascular events…. 

Human subjects with severe obesity are increasingly treated with bariatric surgery to promote weight loss via procedures that reduce the capacity of the stomach and/or the absorptive surface area of the small bowel, resulting in reduced food intake and/or energy malabsorption. Some of these surgical procedures may also be associated …

According to research done in the SLIMM-T2D randomized trial, gastric bypass surgery may have additional benefits for patients with diabetes and obesity…. 

Evidence is emerging that diabetic foot ulceration is associated with greater risk of premature death…. 

Diabetic patients who received bariatric surgery saw greater weight loss and fewer macrovascular and microvascular complications than those treated with usual care…. 

Bariatric surgery comes out ahead with greater weight loss, diabetes remission and less CVD complications than standard medical care….