Surgery for Diabetes
Mature onset (or Type 2) diabetes has rapidly increased in recent years to mirror the increase in obesity within the population. Whilst no medical treatment will resolve the condition there is little hope of a patient ever being free of the conditions associated with diabetes.
Patients are continually told that weight loss and exercise are beneficial, there is no study showing that these measures alone, or combined with medication, have "cured" patients in any significant number.
Recent studies have shown that surgery has a "cure" rate of at least 90% following gastric bypass surgery.
How is this achieved?
What is the science behind this claim?
Surgery to cure diabetes?
Gastric bypass surgery, long known to relieve obesity, now has been shown to resolve Type 2 diabetes in nearly 100% of obese patients. The effect of surgery for diabetes appears to be permanent. Resolution occurs often within days of the surgery for diabetes and evidence shows that the resolution occurs independently of the weight loss produced. In other words, the diabetes resolves before the weight drops off!
The aim of this website is to take the latest available evidence and publish it in a comprehensive and easily understood manner.
It will demonstrate the mechanisms of diabetic cure and highlight the different surgical methods and their individual strengths and weaknesses in treating Type 2 diabetes.
Surgery for diabetes may soon become the preferred first line treatment for the overweight or obese patient.