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Article: Adjustable gastric banding beats conventional diabetes treatment.(Metabolic Disorders)
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- Family Practice News
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- March 1, 2008
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Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding produced a 76% remission rate in the first randomized trial to compare the surgery against conventional treatment in obese patients with recent-onset type 2 diabetes.
"After 2 years, the surgical group displayed a 5 times higher remission rate and a 4 times greater reduction in [hemoglobin [A.sub.1c]] values than the conventional-therapy group," according to John B. Dixon, Ph.D., of Monash University, Melbourne, and his associates.
The surgical group also showed greater resolution of features of the metabolic syndrome and greater improvements in insulin sensitivity, lipid profiles, and hypertension, allowing for ...