Bariatric surgery reduces long-term cardiovascular risk in diabetes patients

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

In the longest study of its kind, bariatric surgery has been shown to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients with diabetes. These results and other groundbreaking research were presented at the 2nd World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes, hosted by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College.

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