Obesity surgery achieves long term weight loss and prevents type 2 diabetes, study finds

Gastric bypass surgery achieves long term weight loss and sustained prevention of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia in severely obese patients, a 12 year follow-up study has shown.1

Previous studies have shown significant weight loss and improvements in type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors with bariatric surgery, but follow-up has been relatively short term. There has been limited evidence on the long term effects.

The new study prospectively followed up 418 severely obese patients undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass at Rocky Mountain Associated Physicians surgical centre, in the US. Data were …