Type 2 diabetes patients who underwent bariatric surgery appear to require significantly less medication and incur considerably lower health costs, says a report published in this month’s issue of Archives of Surgery , a JAMA/Archives journal. Bariatric surgery is a surgical procedure on the stomach and/or intestines to help extremely obese people lose weight – it is an option for patients with a BMI ( body (more…)
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Diabetes Patients Who Undergo Bariatric Surgery Require Fewer Medications
Monday, August 16th, 2010
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