Gastric bypass surgery achieves long term weight loss and sustained prevention of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia in severely obese patients, a 12 year follow-up study has shown.1 Previous studies have shown significant weight loss and improvements in type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors with bariatric surgery, but follow-up has been relatively short term. There has been limited evidence on the long term effects. The new study prospectively followed up 418 severely obese patients undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass at Rocky Mountain Associated Physicians surgical centre, in the US. Data were …

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研究发现，肥胖手术可实现长期减肥并预防2型糖尿病

一项为期12年的随访研究显示，胃旁路手术可实现长期的体重减轻，并能持续预防重度肥胖患者的2型糖尿病，高血压和血脂异常。1以往的研究表明，减肥明显改善并改善了2型糖尿病和减肥手术有心血管危险因素，但随访时间相对较短。关于长期影响的证据有限。这项新研究前瞻性地追踪了美国落基山联合医师外科手术中心的418名接受Roux-en-Y胃旁路手术的严重肥胖患者。数据是……