Obese adults with diabetes who underwent weight loss surgery had a reduced risk of complications that may affect the eyes, kidney, and nerves.

‘The risk of developing diabetic nephropathy, neuropathy, and retinopathy reduced by 4-fold in those who underwent weight loss surgery.’

Reducing the Risk of Complications




- The risk of developing microvascular diabetic complications was 4-fold reduced in patients with type 2 diabetes undergoing surgery compared with patients with current guideline-based medical therapy.
- Pre-existing diabetic nephropathy was strongly improved by surgery compared with medical treatment.
- The likelihood of improvement or remission in patients with diabetes-related kidney damage was 15-times higher after surgery compared with current medical therapy.
"Such strong and reliable effects, especially on very difficult-to-treat diabetic kidney damage, are not even remotely possible with the current medical therapy," added senior author Prof. Beat Muller-Stich, also of the University of Heidelberg.
Source-Eurekalert