{"id":149163,"date":"2015-09-06T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=149163"},"modified":"2015-09-05T16:47:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T16:47:04","slug":"weight-loss-surgery-cures-half-of-type-2-diabetes-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=149163","title":{"rendered":"Weight loss surgery ‘cures half of type-2 diabetes cases’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weight loss surgery cures half of patients with type-2 diabetes, for at least five years, a study suggests.<\/p>\n

The trial, on 60 people, published in the Lancet, found none of those with type 2 had been cured by medication and diet alone.<\/p>\n

The surgery improves symptoms both through weight loss and by changing the way the gut functions.<\/p>\n

Experts said the results were “remarkable” and that too few people were getting access to the surgery.<\/p>\n

The team, at King’s College London and the Universita Cattolica in Rome, compared standard drug therapy with surgery to rewire the digestive tract.<\/p>\n

The operations reduced the size of the stomach and left less of the intestines exposed to food.<\/p>\n

Prof Francesco Rubino, who operated on the patients, told the BBC News website: “Surgery is able to produce prolonged remission in 50% of cases, patients get to levels of blood sugar that is non-diabetes for five years.<\/p>\n

“However, 80% who had surgery were able to maintain ‘optimal control’ [of blood sugar] despite only taking one drug or nothing at all.”<\/p>\n

While some of those patients still had type-2 diabetes, they were easily keeping their sugar levels to recommended levels.<\/p>\n

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The patients who had surgery were also less likely to have heart problems, a common side-effect of uncontrolled diabetes, and reported improved quality of life.<\/p>\n

Prof Rubino added: “Treating surgically, rather than medical therapy, appears more cost-effective, as there is less use of medication.”<\/p>\n

The results were better two years after surgery. However, some patients relapsed in the past three years.<\/p>\n

The surgeons say there still needs to be continual monitoring of blood sugar levels even after the operation.<\/p>\n

Drs Dimitri Pournaras and Carel le Roux, from Imperial College London, said diabetes was “the plague of the 21st Century” and that the results were “remarkable”.<\/p>\n

They added: “Surgery for diabetes seems to be safe, effective in terms of glycaemic [sugar] control, and is now associated with reduced complications of diabetes.<\/p>\n

“The ultimate question is whether diabetes surgery is associated with reduced mortality.”<\/p>\n

However they said surgery needed to “become more available because only a few patients who will benefit are currently offered this potentially life-saving option”.<\/p>\n

New rules in the UK have been introduced that should increase the number of patients being offered weight loss surgery.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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