Australian researchers suggest that Type-2 diabetes may respond to surgical treatments for obesity.
Surgery for obesity was more likely to put a patient’s diabetes in remission than efforts to lose weight without surgery, according to research conducted at Monash University in Melbourne.
Only 13 percent of patients using traditional weight-loss methods went into remission after two years, compared to 73 percent of patients who had surgery to treat obesity.
The researchers’ findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, indicate that it may be more effective to undergo extreme weigh-loss therapy at first, rather than simply making changes in lifestyle, according to team leader Dr. John Dixon.
The study concludes that surgical procedures for weight loss may be indicated in patients with Type-2 diabetes.