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Treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus with bariatric surgery

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Gastrointestinal surgery may ameliorate glycemic control in type 2 diabetes mellitus within days to weeks—an effect that cannot be explained solely by the changes in food intake and body weight following gastric bypass. Should clinicians, therefore, implement bariatric procedures to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients who do not meet current obesity-based criteria for surgery?

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Clifton, P. Treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus with bariatric surgery. Nat Rev Endocrinol 6, 191–193 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2010.23

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