Weight loss surgery helps prevent diabetes: study

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Weight loss surgery helps prevent diabetes: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Treating obese people with weight loss surgery dramatically delays or prevents the onset of type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. "We saw a marked delay (in the development of diabetes) over 15 years," said coauthor Dr. Lars Sjostrom of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. "Some of those surgical patients will probably develop diabetes later. But over a lifetime, there will be a large difference." Among the 1,658 volunteers who received surgery, mostly stomach stapling, the risk of developing diabetes was about one in 150 per year. ...

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