Seems like I am getting off easy these days with my Blog.
Maybe you are, too.
I continue to see this Blog as a place for those of you in Primary Care to get the latest updates, as well and some of the timeless facts and experiences of a Bariatric Surgery practice in Real-Time format.
If I am the messenger, so be it. If the message comes directly from an authority or an article that I can summarize, even better.
Today, I found for you a 4 minute video presentation from a Doctor Philip Schauer, a noted expert Metabolic researcher and Bariatric Surgeon for the Cleveland Clinic.
He was filmed at the recent Obesity Week session that I described earlier in this blog, and he highlighted a just-released study that reinforces other studies out there with similarly big implications.
He reviewed a study from China that integrated remission of type 2 Diabetes at one year after Gastric Bypass, with preop C Peptide, Glycohemoglobin levels, and BMI of the patient. As you may remember, age of the patient, duration of Diabetes, and even types of therapy at the time of surgery have also been reviewed, with similar suggestion that residual beta-cell function is where the crux of the issue lies, but those may be of lesser importance.
Furthermore, he comments on additional areas of related impact in the way of when surgery should be performed on these patients (Spoiler Alert: EARLIER is better), and the potential role for Diabetes treatment via metabolic surgery in the sub BMI 35 crowd.
Good stuff. Arm yourself with this updated information, it will be 4 minutes well spent.
I know you will be able to use it soon!
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