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Obesity and Diabetes
Research from M.V.D.D. Martins and co-researchers provides new data on obesity and diabetes
March 3rd, 2009
"Type 2 diabetes is an epidemic and insulin resistance is the central etiology of this disease. Obesity increases insulin resistance and glucose intolerance and also exacerbates metabolic abnormalities present in type 2 diabetes," scientists in Brazil report. "Bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment for severe obesity. Most reported series show that return to euglycemia and normal insulin levels occur days after gastric bypass and biliopancreatic diversion, long before major weight loss has taken place. The mechanisms underlying this dramatic reversal of type 2 diabetes following these bariatric procedures are not well understood. Twelve Wistar rats were fed...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-03-03)
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