Gastric bypass and lap band surgeries are becoming more and more popular in the United States every year. Known widely as a surgery to help obese and morbidly obese patients reduce overall body weight and fat, it seems there are hidden health benefits just beginning to surface.
Patients who have undergone the lap band version of weight loss surgery are now thought to be five times more likely to go into
Diabetes Remission than diabetes patients who did not undergo the surgery. In many cases patients are able to stop taking diabetes medications within two years after the surgeries completion. This means a total blood sugar control was achieved.
In patients with diabetes who chose the gastric bypass version of the weight loss surgery, the results were even more dramatic. Remission was achieved within days, not years.
There was once a time when diabetes was thought of as a disease that a patient would have to live with for the duration of their lives. Today, after the results of research and testing, medical authorities believe otherwise.
While weight loss surgeries would never be an option for patients of normal weight and diabetes, for obese patients, these results mean a possible end to both weight related health issues, as well as, the ongoing fight with diabetes.
Even though more than 75% of the patients in a recent diabetes, weight loss surgery study were able to maintain healthy blood sugar levels without medication after two years, doctors believe more research is needed in order to validate the surgery as a viable treatment for curing the disease.
