When I first heard about this on the local news last night, my first thought was "well, yeah, if you lose weight your diabetes should get better."
But they're talking about remission just days after surgery. The speculation is that it's got something to do with diminished stomach enzymes (due to the diminished size of the stomach, of course).
My second thought was "maybe someone could come up with a pill that does the same thing."
http://www.denverpost.com/colleges/ci_6190041Around the country surgeons report that Type 2 diabetes diminishes or disappears altogether in significant numbers of patients who undergo the drastic weight-reduction surgery - often immediately after surgery.
So far, research indicates that it seems to have something to do with changes in gut hormones after the surgery, Meneghini said.
What is clear is that the surgery does have an impact.
Rose (Medical Center)'s (Dr. Michael) Snyder reports that high blood sugar is reduced or eliminated in 82 percent of his gastric bypass patients with diabetes before surgery.
Edited because square brackets don't work right inside an excerpt--I know the parentheses are not the correct way to do it, but they're all that worked....
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