Bariatric Surgery Shows Promise In Preventing Type 2 Diabetes
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
At 15 years of follow-up in the Swedish Obese Subjects study, 110 bariatric surgery patients had developed type 2 diabetes versus 392 non-surgery patients in the control group, corresponding to incidence rates of 6.8 cases and 28.4 cases per 1,000 person-years, respectively.
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