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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
It is often a last resort for those desperate to combat their obesity.
Yet doctors are increasingly seeing weight-loss surgery as a way to fight the type 2 diabetes epidemic that has seen the number of British sufferers spiral to more than three million.
It costs the NHS over ?9billion a year to treat the disease, which is usually triggered by obesity.
Yet 86 per cent of type 2 diabetes patients who have weight-loss surgery ? including gastric bands and bypasses ? are in remission from the condition two years later.
The newest option is the gastric sleeve which has many of the benefits of the more invasive bypass.
This involved removing parts of the digestive system, with fewer risks.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ackle-disease-affecting-3million-Britons.html
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Yet doctors are increasingly seeing weight-loss surgery as a way to fight the type 2 diabetes epidemic that has seen the number of British sufferers spiral to more than three million.
It costs the NHS over ?9billion a year to treat the disease, which is usually triggered by obesity.
Yet 86 per cent of type 2 diabetes patients who have weight-loss surgery ? including gastric bands and bypasses ? are in remission from the condition two years later.
The newest option is the gastric sleeve which has many of the benefits of the more invasive bypass.
This involved removing parts of the digestive system, with fewer risks.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ackle-disease-affecting-3million-Britons.html
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