New Delhi, June 11: A new study published on Tuesday found that prediabetic patients who underwent metabolic and bariatric surgery or severe obesity were 20 times less likely to acquire Type 2 diabetes. According to the study, only 1.8% of patients developed diabetes within five years following weight loss procedures such as sleeve gastrectomy or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.

Researchers from the US's Geisinger Medical Centre in Pennsylvania found that the numbers rose to 3.3 per cent in 10 years and 6.7 per cent after 15 years. They also found that the protective effect against diabetes is higher among gastric bypass patients. On the other hand, nearly a third (31.1 per cent) of patients with no prior metabolic surgery saw their prediabetes develop into diabetes within five years, which increased to 51.5 per cent and 68.7 per cent at 10 and 15 years, respectively. Diabetes Treatment: Want to Lower Blood Sugar Levels?

David Parker, co-author and a bariatric surgeon at Geisinger stated, "This is the first study to analyse the long-term impact of metabolic and bariatric surgery on the potential progression of prediabetes and the impact is significant and durable." He further added, "It demonstrates that metabolic surgery is as much a treatment as it is a prevention for diabetes."

Prediabetes is a serious condition blood sugar levels are above normal but not high enough to be classified as type 2 diabetes. To perform the retrospective analysis, 1326 patients who had prediabetes prior to having a sleeve gastrectomy or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery between 2001 and 2022 were matched with non-surgical controls from a primary care cohort. Diabetes Week 2024.

The study was presented at the 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) in San Diego.

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