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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The PR people from the Cleveland Clinic sent me a fact sheet about the study that was all over the news yesterday, which is being headlined as if Weight Loss Surgery was a cure for diabetes.
The facts presented in the sheet were slightly different and more informative than the summary presented in the New England Journal of Medicine research report.
Here's the research report: NEJM: Bariatric Surgery versus Intensive Medical Therapy in Obese Patients with Diabetes .
Here are extracts from the press release sent to me by the Cleveland Clinic's PR team. 150 patients participated in a 1 year-long trial. 50 had gastric bypass surgery, 50 had gastric banding, and 50 got the usual cr** treatment from doctors including, undoubtedly, the advice to eat low fat/high carb diets. Here's what they report.
"After 12 months, a normal HbA1c (less than 6.0) was achieved in 42.6 percent of patients who underwent gastric bypass and 36.7 percent of patients who underwent sleeve surgery..."
http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/no-wls-does-not-cure-diabetes-study-by.html
The facts presented in the sheet were slightly different and more informative than the summary presented in the New England Journal of Medicine research report.
Here's the research report: NEJM: Bariatric Surgery versus Intensive Medical Therapy in Obese Patients with Diabetes .
Here are extracts from the press release sent to me by the Cleveland Clinic's PR team. 150 patients participated in a 1 year-long trial. 50 had gastric bypass surgery, 50 had gastric banding, and 50 got the usual cr** treatment from doctors including, undoubtedly, the advice to eat low fat/high carb diets. Here's what they report.
"After 12 months, a normal HbA1c (less than 6.0) was achieved in 42.6 percent of patients who underwent gastric bypass and 36.7 percent of patients who underwent sleeve surgery..."
http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/no-wls-does-not-cure-diabetes-study-by.html