In the past, we have covered news on the connection between bariatric surgery and diabetes. More recent news has indicated that scientists at Swansea University’s School of Medicine have received funding to determine why bariatric weight-loss surgery has cured diabetes in a number of patients.
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95% of morbidly obese people – those with a Body Mass Index of over 40 – have Type 2 diabetes, sometimes known as maturity-onset diabetes. However, nearly 80% of patients who undergo gastric bypass surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs and small intestines find that their diabetes disappears within two to three days – before any weight loss has occurred.
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