Omar Ghanem, the lead author of the study and a metabolic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, said in a press statement. “This study shows that diabetes remission is not fully contingent on weight loss after gastric bypass surgery,” Dr. The findings, which haven’t been published yet in a peer review journal, report that people with type 2 diabetes who underwent gastric bypass had a shorter duration of disease and less need for diabetes medications following surgery. That’s according to research presented today at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) annual meeting. More than half of people with type 2 diabetes who have weight loss surgery go into remission from their disease. Experts say weight loss surgery is safe but emphasize that people still need to adopt lifestyle changes such as healthy diets and exercise programs after their procedure.They added that the study participants who had gastric bypass surgery had less need for diabetes medications after their procedure.
Researchers report that more than half of the people in a retrospective study went into remission from type 2 diabetes after having weight loss surgery.Isabel Infantes/Europa Press via Getty Images Share on Pinterest Experts report that only about 1% of people who meet the requirements for weight loss surgery have the procedure.
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