Diabetes

Data on Diabetes Reported by Researchers at University of Wisconsin

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, May 16th, 2011

2011 MAY 16 -- According to a study from Madison, United States, "Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and laparoscopic gastric banding (LB) are the 2 most common operations used to treat morbid obesity, but few controlled comparative studies have reported perioperative and long-term outcomes. Two-cohort pair-matched study."

"Academic tertiary referral center. One hundred consecutive morbidly obese patients treated with LB were pair-matched by sex, race, age, initial body mass index, and presence of type 2 diabetes mellitus with 100 patients who were treated with RYGB. Perioperative and postoperative complications, reoperations, and 1-year outcomes,...

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Source: Obesity and Diabetes Week (2011-05-16)

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