Diabetes Outcomes

Study finds pancreas transplants riskier than blood sugar control

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 28th, 2003

Diabetics who stick with insulin injections and blood-sugar monitoring have better odds of survival than those who opt for a disease-curing pancreas transplant, a drastic but increasingly common option, a study suggests.

A pancreas transplant can essentially cure diabetes.

Patients who received pancreas-only transplants had a 1-year survival rate of 97% and a 4-year rate of 85%, compared with 98% and 92% of those who tried to control their diabetes by conventional means while awaiting a transplant, according to a government study in the December 3, 2003, Journal of the American Medical Association.

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