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Doctors are turning to bariatric surgery, the kind that shrinks the stomach, to control type 2 diabetes. A number of studies show this type of surgery drastically improves blood sugar levels, but researchers don’t know why. Now studies at two US medical centers have uncovered a new clue for why a type of bariatric surgery works. VOA’s Carol Pearson reports.

www.gastric-banding-surgery.co.uk Gastric band surgery in Belgium can dramatically improve the quality of your life. Gastric banding is also available at our clinics in France and Belgium for residents of Ireland who can save thousands of pounds compared to UK and Irish Hospitals. On average Patients lose 70 percent of their excess body weight over a period of two to three years. Gradual weight loss over the ensuing few years after the procedure can bring significant improvements in health. Lap-band surgery patients who have undergone the surgery can reduce the risk of developing severe health conditions related to morbid obesity, such as hypertension, high cholesterol, heart disease, sleep apnoea, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes, acid reflux disease, asthma, and osteoarthritis. Gastric band surgery is one of the most popular procedures at most obesity clinics and carries several advantages over other bariatric techniques. This is because it does not involve any cutting, stapling, or other permanent alterations to the stomach and intestines. Gastric banding patients are quite often very motivated patients, and in the long term weight loss has the added benefit of giving the patients a more active and fulfilled sex life, add to this an increase in self-confidence, increased mobility, less illness and a longer life-expectancy make this type of weight loss very attractive for patients and surgeons alike. Bariatric surgery does have a few known risks, but these are normally …

Francesco Rubino, MD, is Chief of Gastrointestinal Metabolic Surgery and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is an Assistant Attending Surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Rubino is a world-renowned pioneer of surgery for type 2 diabetes,an emerging speciality which holds great promise for diabetics– for the first time bringing diabetes type 2 into long term remission. Dr. Rubino is heading up the Diabetes Surgery Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical College, the first academic-based Diabetes Surgery Center

Low-Glycemic Eating, Not Bariatric Surgery, Is the Solution for Obese Type 2 Diabetics
Online Health Coach Jim Healthy Blasts the International Diabetes Foundation for Endorsing Gastric Bypass Surgery for Overweight Diabetics (PRWeb April 11, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/4/prweb8283631.htm

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While bariatric surgery is expensive, the long-term benefits for both health and health care costs make it worthwhile for individuals with type 2 diabetes, according to research published in the Archives of Surgery. Here is some information about bariatric surgery: • It refers to surgery conducted for the purpose of facilitating weight loss • The surgery generally works by limiting the intake of food and/or limiting the absorption of food • While they can be effective, such surgeries can be complex and carry significant risks and should thus be considered a last resort for weight loss Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health used insurance claims data to calculate the costs of bariatric surgery among over 2000 individuals with type 2 diabetes who underwent the procedure. The investigators also compared medication use and health care costs before and after they underwent bariatric surgery. During the first two years following bariatric surgery, nearly 85% of the participants eventually no longer needed to use any antidiabetes medications. Bariatric surgery and its related hospitalization, on average, cost nearly $30000, and there was an initial spike in annual health care costs in the first year following the surgery, compared with before surgery. In the third year following surgery, however, average annual health care costs dropped by over 70%, compared with the annual costs of health care per patient in the year or two before surgery. We spoke …

Eagles’ Jean-Gilles talks of lap-band surgery
PHILADELPHIA — No one dared utter the “W” word in the presence of Max Jean-Gilles. For as long as he was old enough to step on a scale, it seemed as if he had been a prisoner of what could only be called an All-Pro appetite. As his weight ballooned to close to 400 pounds, he became so annoyed with his inability to shed the extra pounds he had accumulated that he banned it as a topic of …

Diabetes, Obesity and Bariatric Surgery: Dr. Steven Edelman discusses bariatric surgery, with a focus on gastric bypass, as a tool for the management a type 2 diabetes and overall health, with surgeon Dr. Michelle Savu and endocrinologist, Dr. Vanita Aroda. Series: “Taking Control of Your Diabetes” [6/2007] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 12873]

Possible Explanation For How Weight-Loss Surgery Reverses Type 2 Diabetes
A team of researchers, led by a UC Davis veterinary endocrinologist, has shown for the first time that a surgical procedure in rats that is similar to bariatric surgery in humans can delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. The researchers also have identified biochemical changes caused by the surgeries that may be responsible for that delay…

Weight-Loss Surgery a “Cure” for Type 2 Diabetes?
Diabetes Forecast on What’s Known About Weight-Loss Surgery — and What Is Not

I know there is a procedure available for type 1 diabetes that works for 2-3 years (animal transplant that eventually gets rejected by the human immune system) but does it work with type 2 diabetes?