The Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Severely Obese Patients With Diabetes
- Daniel Eisenberg, MD and
- Robert L. Bell, MD, MA
Abstract
In Brief
Obesity and diabetes are two often interrelated and escalating health problems. For patients with clinically severe obesity and diabetes, surgery provides the best option for the cure of both disease processes. The resolution of diabetes may not result from weight loss alone, but instead may be caused by (surgical) alateration of the enteroinsular axis.
Footnotes
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Daniel Eisenberg, MD, is senior resident in the Department of Surgery, and Robert L. Bell, MD, MA, is an assistant professor in the Section of Surgical Gastroenterology, Department of Surgery, at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn.
- American Diabetes Association
