
Diabetes, Obesity, and Weight Loss: An Update
New findings and guidelines translate into better awareness, understanding, and clinical decision making.
Obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) can ameliorate the consequences of obesity by losing weight. Click through the slides above for highlights of: ⺠New guidelines that inculde bariatric surgery as an option for some persons with obesity and type 2 DM. ⺠An international study that suggests weight loss could be the key to reversing prediabetes. ⺠A new review that summarizes long-term metabolic effects of gastric bypass surgery. ⺠A birth cohort study that shows an independent association between family history of DM or myocardial infarction and unfavorable cardiometabolic markers in young children. Â
References:
1. Rubino F, Nathan DM, Eckel RH, et al.
2. PREVIEW
3. Mosinski JD, Kirwan JP.
4. Berentzen NE, Wijga AH, van Rossem L, et al.
*Opening slide reference:
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration.
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