Community
Products
Complications & Care
Food
Columns
Medications
Research
Fitness
Monitoring
Health Care
Psychology
Legal
Celebrities
Pregnancy
About Us
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT Diabetes Health E-Newsletter

Discuss this Topic in the Forum

See What's Inside…
View Diabetes Health Magazine For Free Online

You can view the current or previous issues of Diabetes Health online, in their entirety, anytime you want.
Click Here To View

Free Subscription to Diabetes Health Professional

If you are a physician, educator and medical professional who focus on the treatment of diabetes, then this is the must have resource for you.

Finally! A fresh take on the “professional” journal. Each bi-monthly issue cuts through the jargon and presents the most important information you need to enhance your practice and assist your patients.

Each bi-monthly issue of Diabetes Health Professional is a self-contained handbook covering products, educational resources and the latest diabetes research, complimented by balanced editorial focused on medical news, drug prescription information, clinical practice recommendations and changing treatment options.

Each quarter we send you the latest, most updated research guides, product guides and educational resource guides available for you and your patients.

Learn More About the Professional Subscription

ADVERTISEMENT
Diabetes Health E-Newsletter

Each week the Diabetes Health E-Newsletter delivers links to the very latest in news, reviews, blogs and videos from Diabetes Health direct to your inbox.

See an example E-Newsletter

As a subscriber you'll get access to the amazing Diabetes Health Digital Advantage™ so you can read the current issue of Diabetes Health magazine online wherever you are!

Email Address:
Area of Interest:
How To Change Your Newsletter Email…

You can cancel your newsletter subscription at anytime by clicking "Unsubscribe" on the bottom of any newsletter you receive

Then enter your new email address in the above form and click "Subscribe"

ADVERTISEMENT
Latest
Popular
Top Rated
Hospital Care Archives
Print | Email | Share | Comments (1)

Gastric Bypass Surgery Being Considered as Treatment for Type 2

Linda von Wartburg
May 19, 2007

Bariatric surgery, formerly used only for treating obesity, is being explored as a cure for type 2 diabetes in normal weight or moderately overweight people.

A recent analysis of 22,094 patients showed that 84 percent who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) experienced complete reversal of their type 2 diabetes. Most of them stopped their oral meds or insulin before they even left the hospital. 

Researchers initially thought that weight loss caused the remission of type 2, but new findings are pointing to hormonal and metabolic changes caused by the surgery.  Ghrelin, a peptide that stimulates appetite, is decreased after bypass surgery.  Other peptides secreted by intestinal cells, including glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), increase after the operation. (GLP-1 is the protein that Byetta mimics.)

Recently, the RYGB procedure was used on two mildly overweight patients.  Within a month post-surgery, these patients had dramatically lower fasting glucose, fasting insulin, and A1c’s.

Specific recommendations regarding the audience for this surgery are due out this summer.  The researchers believe that a bit of a turf war may consequently develop between endocrinologists and bariatric surgeons, who have their eye on type 2s as a potential market for surgical procedures.


Source: Medscape Medical News
Amercian Association of Clinical Endocrinologists


Related Article

Bariatric Surgery: The Operation Diet

Jun 28, 2007


Categories: Hospital Care, Type 2 Issues, Weight Loss


Donate to Diabetes Health
Recommend this :

Average Rating:


You May Also Be Interested In...


Click Here To View Or Post Comments

May 19, 2007 - * * * *