A recent study that compared the effectiveness of conventional approach for treating Type 2 diabetesdefine over weight-loss surgery shows the latter works much better.
Sixty patients were studied. They had an average age of 47; all were obese and were randomly assigned to receive either surgery or medication. Nearly 73% of those who had surgery showed no recurrence of diabetes meaning all signs of the disease vanished. In comparison, the remission rate was only 13% in the group that received conventional treatment, which included intensive counselling on lifestyle changes covering diet and exercise for weight loss and diabetes medication like insulindefine, metformin and other drugs, wherever necessary.
