Gastric bypass surgery helps diabetes but doesn't cure it, study suggests

After gastric bypass surgery, diabetes goes away for some people -- often even before they lose much weight. So does that mean gastric surgery "cures" diabetes? Not necessarily, according to the largest community-based study of long-term diabetes outcomes after bariatric surgery. For most people, diabetes either never remitted after gastric surgery or relapsed within five years.

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