Can bariatric surgery alleviate diabetes? For those who lose weight and maintain weight loss, the answer is “yes.”
Obesity and Type 2 diabetes often go hand in hand. An obese person is twice as likely to develop Type 2 diabetes, and a morbidly obese person is ten times more likely. Millions of Americans have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes; of those, nearly 90 percent are overweight.
For more about alleviation of diabetes through bariatric surgery, visit Foothills Weight Loss Specialists’ “Weighing In” blog.
http://blog.foothillsweightloss.com/2010/02/15/can-bariatric-surgery-alleviate-diabetes/