For diabetes in obesity, weight-loss surgery beats medication

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For diabetes in obesity, weight-loss surgery beats medication

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/diabetes-obesity-weight-loss-surgery-beats-medication-181856053.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/q7Idtftd.WQzUVAemdMT5w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9ODY7cT03NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2015-09-04T181856Z_1_LYNXNPEB8310S_RTROPTP_2_AUSTRALIA-FOOD.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A man crosses a main road as pedestrians carrying food walk along the footpath in central Sydney, Australia" align="left" title="A man crosses a main road as pedestrians carrying food walk along the footpath in central Sydney, Australia" border="0" /></a>By Anne Harding (Reuters Health) - Weight-loss surgery beats medication for controlling type 2 diabetes in obese people, according to the longest-term trial ever to compare the two approaches. Half of the patients treated with weight-loss surgery in the study were diabetes-free at five years, said Dr. Francesco Rubino of Kings College London in the UK and colleagues in a report in The Lancet. ?The fact that some patients at five years are basically disease-free is a remarkable finding.? In 2009, he and his colleagues randomly assigned 20 obese patients with type 2 diabetes to receive medical treatment, 20 to receive a type of weight-loss surgery called a gastric bypass, and another 20 to undergo a weight-loss operation called a biliopancreatic diversion.</p><br clear="all"/>

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