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Mar
24

New study shows about 60% remain diabetes-free 5 to 16 years after Gastric Bypass

2010-03-24 11:41:31

Long-Term Resolution Most Likely in Non-Insulin Dependent  And Those That Maintain Most Weight Loss 

DALLAS – JUNE 24, 2009 – Nearly 90 percent of morbidly obese patients with Type 2 diabetes experienced diabetes resolution within the first year of gastric bypass surgery and about 60 percent ...

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Mar
24

Obesity in America

2010-03-24 14:12:48

PREVALENCE

• Obesity is a life-threatening disease affecting 34% of adults in the U.S.; and nearly 67% of adults in the U.S. are either overweight or obese.
• Between 2000 and 2005, obesity (BMI ≥30) increased by 24%, morbid obesity (BMI ≥ 40) increased by 50% and super obesity (BMI ≥ 50) increased by 75%.
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Mar
24

Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery

2010-03-24 13:11:03

OVERVIEW

-Treatment for morbid obesity and obesity-related diseases and conditions; limits amount of food stomach can hold, and/or limits amount of calories absorbed, by surgically reducing the stomach’s capacity to a few ounces
-Candidates have body mass index (BMI) of 40 or more, or a BMI of 35 or more with an obesity-related ...
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Mar
24

Weight and type 2 diabetes after Bariatric Surgery: Systematic review and Meta-analysis

2010-03-24 13:28:01
Lead Author: Henry Buchwald, MD, PhD, University of Minnesota

OVERVIEW

• Published in The American Journal of Medicine in March 2009

• Study demonstrates bariatric surgery can effectively improve (78.1%) or resolve (86.6%) Type 2 diabetes in people with morbidly obesity

• Relationship of ...
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Mar
24

ASMBS statement on JAMA study on LAGB

2010-03-24 12:54:58

January 23, 2008
News headlines around the world read “Obesity Surgery Can Cure Diabetes”
after the first randomized controlled study of the effect of Laparoscopic Adjustable
Gastric Banding (LAGB) on type 2 diabetes was published today in the Journal of the
American Medical Association (JAMA).    more >

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