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Article: Weight-loss surgery increasingly seen as treatment for diabetes
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 18, 2008
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Elizabeth Soto used to say no when her husband suggested they go
dancing. "I didn't want to go," she said. "I felt tired and ugly."
She also was carrying 314 pounds on her 5-foot-7-inch frame and had
diabetes.
She had gastric bypass surgery last June and now, at 235 pounds,
the 38-year-old Chelsea resident said she feels "energetic and
beautiful. I want to go out every weekend." Even more astonishing,
her blood sugar, which goes awry in diabetes, normalized within days
of her surgery. A delighted Soto now proclaims: "My diabetes is
gone."
Doctors aren't quite ready to call weight loss surgery a "cure"
for Type 2 diabetes, the most common form. "I would use the term
`remission,' ...