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Diabetes and heart disease risk unchanged after liposuction

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 8th, 2004

Liposuction is no substitute for dieting when it comes to preventing diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.

Reporting in the June 17, 2004, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the scientists found that removing abdominal fat by using modern liposuction techniques did not provide the metabolic benefits normally associated with similar amounts of fat loss induced by dieting.

Excess abdominal fat is associated with a defect in insulin's ability to regulate sugar and fat metabolism, which can lead to metabolic diseases such as type 2...

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