Weight loss surgery as treatment?

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Registered: 04-04-2005
Weight loss surgery as treatment?
Mon, 09-15-2008 - 12:10pm

Would you consider having weight loss surgery if it could treat your type 2 diabetes?


International health experts will convene in New York City next week to discuss an unconventional and arguably radical approach to treating people with type 2 diabetes: weight-loss surgery.


These "bariatric" procedures are normally reserved for the morbidly obese, but recent studies suggest that patients with type 2 diabetes may benefit as well, by improving disease symptoms, often driving it into remission, and reducing the risk of death from the illness.


"We have to address the fact that this could be a potential opportunity for more patients than the ones we have been offering surgery (to) until today," said Dr. Francesco Rubino, chief of gastrointestinal metabolic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, who orchestrated the gathering.


Read more -- let us know if it's something you'd consider!


http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/weight-loss-surgery-weighed-as-diabetes-rx.html



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