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28/06/2012
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The Federal Medical Council already considered a valid alternative in the treatment
A Brazilian study showed that bariatric surgery can help combat type 2 diabetes in people with moderate obesity. The work, published in the journal Diabetes Care, the American Diabetes Association, evaluated 66 patients for six years, longer follow up now.
The Federal Medical Council considers bariatric surgery has a valid alternative in the treatment of people with diabetes combined with severe or morbid obesity (ie, body mass index above 35 kg / m²).
The newly published study evaluated patients with moderate obesity (body mass index between 30 and 35 kg / m²) who received treatment at the Oswaldo Cruz Hospital, São Paulo. About 88% of participants had remission of diabetes - the doctors do not usually talk about a cure.
After a period ranging from 3 to 26 weeks, they stopped using oral medications, and since the surgery, the symptoms did not return. In the other patients, more than 11% reported improvement in blood sugar control.
All underwent a surgery known as gastric bypass, the most popular type of bariatric surgery in the world. "We use the technique more widespread and well established," said Ricardo Cohen, the study coordinator and president of the Brazilian Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
Cohen said that surgery should be contemplated when other alternatives have been discarded by clinics prove ineffective. "The patient does not respond to other treatments may receive the indication of surgery," says the doctor. "But first we must try to change habits and medications.
Source: The Day on Line
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