A Reuters Health story (covered here on Yahoo News) discusses the potential of laparoscopic gastric banding surgery increasing the body’s receptiveness to insulin. This would be good news for weight-loss surgery patients who also have diabetes.
An excerpt:
To investigate, Carroll and her team have been following 37 lap band patients for up to one year. Those followed for six months have lost 23 kilograms (51 pounds), on average, while average weight loss for those who have been followed for a year is 34 kg (75 pounds). Their level of insulin resistance had fallen by 60 percent after six months…