Mechanisms Underlying Type 2 Diabetes Remission After Metabolic Surgery

Remission of type 2 diabetes after bariatric surgery.

Diabetes remission after bariatric surgery: which are the mechanisms?

Bariatric surgery is being performed increasingly in response to the epidemic of obesity plaguing the Western society. The numbers of such procedures have increased sharply worldwide, with the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (GBP) currently being considered as the gold-standard operative treatment for morbid obesity. Its widespread acceptance lies in part in its remarkable success in reducing weight o...

Insulin cessation and diabetes remission after bariatric surgery in adults with insulin-treated type 2 diabetes.

OBJECTIVE The impact of bariatric surgeries on insulin-treated type 2 diabetes (I-T2D) in the general population is largely undocumented. We assessed changes in insulin treatment after bariatric surgery in a large cohort of I-T2D patients, comparing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery (RYGB) with laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB), controlling for differences in weight loss between pro...

Metabolic Surgery - Cure for Type 2 Diabetes

HEADINGS Diabetes Mellitus, Bariatric Surgery, Obesity. ABSTRACT Introduction Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disease characterized by chronic hyperglycemia associated with several organs damage and failure. It is the most common cause of blindness, amputation and kidney failure in western adults, besides increase the risk of coronary disease and stroke with high mortality of patients. The assoc...

Bariatric surgery and type 2 diabetes mellitus: surgically induced remission.

The relationship between obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is well known. Morbidly obese patients with T2DM who undergo bariatric surgery have improvement or remission of their diabetes. Different types of bariatric operations offer varying degrees of T2DM remission. These operations are classified as restrictive, malabsorptive, or a combination of both. The gold-standard operation, k...