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Bariatric Surgery Shows Significant Effect on Obese Type 1s

February 25, 2014 diabeteshealth 0 Comments

Here’s a development to keep your eye on: Bariatric surgery performed on a small group of morbidly obese type 1s led to considerable weight loss, improved glycemic control, and improved metabolic profiles up to three years later. The surgeries, performed by doctors at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio on 10 patients, led to an average body mass index reduction of 27 percent and A1c’s that

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Foot Problems Pervasive In The U.S., Linked To Obesity, Sedentary Lives And Diabetes, Says New New IPFH/NPD Study Foot Health Affects Overall Health

June 30, 2012 Debra Caruso 0 Comments

Institute for Preventive Foot Health Sounds Alarm, Offers Help

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Intensive Wellness Approach Helps Type 2s Lower Drug Doses and Costs

June 14, 2012 diabeteshealth 0 Comments

A Florida-based endocrinologist and his team have reported that an intensive 16-week wellness program aimed at type 2 patients yielded some dramatic results: Patients were able to decrease their insulin by 46 percent and their oral medication by 12 percent. They saw their 30-day prescription costs drop by an average of more than $140 per month, reduced their BMI by 3.07, and experienced a drop

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Obesity Could Follow Sleepless Nights

May 10, 2012 diabeteshealth 0 Comments

Feeling tired? Your lack of rest may be putting you at increased risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes. That’s the conclusion of a new paper, published in The American Journal of Human Biology, that looked at evidence collected from numerous experimental and observational studies. The link was clear: People who got less than six hours of sleep a night were more likely to have

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Weight-Loss Surgery Produces Dramatic Results in Type 2s

April 20, 2012 diabeteshealth 0 Comments

Bariatric surgery, not medications, may be the key to producing dramatic drops in weight and even the remission of diabetes symptoms among type 2 patients, says a study from the University of Rome. Researchers there report that of morbidly obese patients in a control group who underwent the form of bariatric surgery called sleeve gastrectomy, 80 percent ceased to have any symptoms of diabetes within

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Surgery Works Better Than Drugs at Blood Sugar Control in Obese Patients

April 2, 2012 diabeteshealth 0 Comments

An Ohio-based study of overweight and obese type 2 patients shows that weight loss surgery works much better at controlling blood sugar levels than any known drug treatment. The study, called STAMPEDE and conducted by the Cleveland Clinic, compared results among 150 patients who had body mass indexes ranging from 27 (overweight) to 43 (morbidly obese). Their average HbA1C level was 9%. Researchers divided the