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Fight Diabetes with Gastric Surgery
Researchers at the Hospital of National Taiwan University reported new diabetes treatments through bypass surgery and gastric narrowing.
The Taiwanese doctors presented at a press conference the positive results of therapy in 60 cases of operated diabetic gastric surgery over a year ago.
“Diabetes is really a gastrointestinal disease, resulting from problems with the gastrointestinal hormones that influence insulin production, so it can be treated with gastric surgery,” said a spokesman for the doctors, Li Wei-jie.
In an experiment with 60 patients, average age 45 years, found that one year after gastric bypass surgery 93.3% had a normal blood sugar level and in the case of gastric narrowing, the proportion was 46.7%.
Researchers at the Taiwan Normal University said that with current therapies and medication, a year, only 30% of patients achieved a normal level of sugar. Read the rest of this entry »