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Journal Article
Bariatric Surgery versus Conventional Medical Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes
2012
Overview
In this study involving severely obese patients with type 2 diabetes, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and biliopancreatic diversion achieved better glucose control than conventional medical therapy as assessed at 2 years.
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus is rapidly increasing worldwide, in parallel with the current obesity epidemic. In 2010, the global prevalence of type 2 diabetes was estimated at 8.3% of the adult population, a proportion that is projected to increase to 9.9% by 2030.
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As many as 23% of patients with morbid obesity have type 2 diabetes,
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and the prevalence of screening-detected diabetes is 8%.
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Global spending on diabetes was estimated to be at least $376 billion in 2010 and projected to be $490 billion in 2030.
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Conventional medical treatment of type 2 diabetes only partially achieves adequate . . .
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Subject
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Diabetes
/ Diabetes mellitus (non-insulin dependent)
/ Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - complications
/ Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - drug therapy
/ Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - surgery
/ Diabetes. Impaired glucose tolerance
/ Endocrine pancreas. Apud cells (diseases)
/ Etiopathogenesis. Screening. Investigations. Target tissue resistance
/ Female
/ Glycated Hemoglobin A - analysis
/ Humans
/ Hypoglycemic Agents - therapeutic use
/ Male
/ Obesity
/ Obesity, Morbid - complications
/ Patients
/ Stomach, duodenum, intestine, rectum, anus
/ Surgery
/ Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases
