Elena González Arnáiz, María D Ballesteros Pomar, Begoña Pintor de la Maza, Lucía González Roza, Beatriz Ramos Bachiller, David Barajas Galindo, Ana Urioste Fondo, Diana Ariadel Cobo, Ana Hernández Moreno, Luis González Herráez, Jesús Manuel Silva Fernández, Isidoro Cano Rodríguez
Obesity and diabetes are two closely related disorders. Lifestyle changes and drug treatment do not achieve successful diabetes remission. A treatment option for these patients is bariatric surgery (BS). The partial and complete remission rates vary, depending on the type of technique used (restrictive or malabsorptive), with malabsorptive surgery being more effective in terms of both weight reduction and diabetes remission (DR). Different scales (DiaRem, Ad-DiaRem or 5y-Ad-DiaRem) predict the probability of DR after BS, particularly after gastric bypass surgery...
April 2021: Endocrinología, diabetes y nutrición