Where is details on Gastric Bypass or Lap Bands to treat diabetes – Adertisement targets diabetics?”
A November 15th advertisement in Parade Magazine gives the appearance of encouraging the use of gastric banding, a less invasive version of a gastric bypass, as a potential treatment for diabetes. Gastric bypass/banding benefits for diabetics Weight loss is beneficial for a diabetic. Glucose metabolism is improved in people who are not obese, so losing excess weight improves health for a diabetic. Symptoms of diabetes can be dramatically improved with drastic weight loss, such as the weight loss that comes with a gastric bypass or gastric band. Problems with surgical weight loss Gastric banding or gastric bypass, the procedure is still surgery, and can result in medical complications. In addition, the success of the procedure depends on the patient’s ability to stop eating when he or she feels full. In an individual who eats for comfort, or who has lost touch with hunger/satiety signals, this procedure may not be successful.
A new study gives the strongest evidence yet that obesity surgery can cure diabetes.Patients who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs were five times more likely to see their diabetes disappear over the next two years than were patients who had standard diabetes care, according to Australian researchers.Most of the surgery patients were able to stop taking diabetes drugs and achieve normal blood tests.”It’s the best therapy for diabetes that we have today, and it’s very low risk,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. John Dixon of Monash University Medical School in Melbourne, Australia.The patients had stomach band surgery, a procedure more common in Australia than in the United States, where gastric bypass surgery, or stomach stapling, predominates. Gastric bypass is even more effective against diabetes, achieving remission in a matter of days or a month, said Dr. David Cummings, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the journal but was not involved in the study. “We have t
