JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
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Observational Study
Association of bariatric surgery with long-term remission of type 2 diabetes and with microvascular and macrovascular complications.
Short-term studies show that bariatric surgery causes remission of diabetes. The long-term outcomes for remission and diabetes-related complications are not known. ⋯ In this very long-term follow-up observational study of obese patients with type 2 diabetes, bariatric surgery was associated with more frequent diabetes remission and fewer complications than usual care. These findings require confirmation in randomized trials. TRIAL REGISTRATION clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01479452.