It leads to greater body weight loss and higher remission rates of type 2 diabetes than non-surgical treatment.
The findings, to be published on Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, are significant given the high rates of Type 2 diabetes around the world, and the expectation that dementia rates will increase as the population ages.
New drugs alone will not reverse rising rates of Type 2 diabetes, a condition that affects about 20 million Americans and is closely tied to obesity and lack of physical activity.
In Oklahoma City, health workers faced with soaring rates of Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, question whether they can afford to continue to offer classes where diabetics learn how to avoid foot amputations.
No one is claiming that sugar-sweetened drinks are the only reason Americans have gotten fatter and developed high rates of Type 2 diabetes.
American Indians experience high rates of type 2 diabetes.
Shift work has been linked to higher rates of type 2 diabetes, heart attacks and cancer.
Rates of type 2 diabetes mellitus are increasing worldwide at an explosive rate.
We also see increasing rates of type 2 diabetes, especially in children.
