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According to the new report published by the Archives of surgery, weight loss surgery cures diabetes in 8 out of 10 people and the success of it is better that expected.

Patients who have diabetes were put on lots of weight and hoped to cure their long held disease that not only divest them from spoiling in their mouth watering dishes and have several other ailments with it.

The latest reports encourage the obese people who lose hope to return a normal lifestyle and normal diet. Obese people who have put on huge quantity of fat can now get their fatty division removed by surgery and can also get divest of high blood sugar level.

“Archives of Surgery, says a recent study at the University of Wisconsin has revealed that people who undergo weight loss surgery usually get rid of high blood sugar level. The report suggest that as many as eighty percent of people get their diabetes cured by undergoing the surgery.” http://www.timeswireservice.com/news/Weight_loss_surgery_cures_diabetes_in_8_out_of_ten_people_1309426910/

The research demonstrated that eight out of ten people who underwent the surgeries totally cured their high blood sugar level. A specialist at the Vrije Universiteit’s Institute for Cardiovascular Research Dr. Rick Meijer state that those results go beyond what can be achieved with conformist methods of diabetes treatment.

Researchers said that eight out of ten patients could stop taking their diabetes medications following a gastric bypass operation this was a report published in the archive of surgery.

Dr. Jon Gould, who heads the weight loss surgery program at the University of Wisconsin and was not involved in the review, said that Surgery must to be considered as front line therapy for diabetes among obese people.

The researchers search through the data of nine studies of diabetics who had either gastric bypass or one more form of weight loss surgery called gastric banding. In gastric bypass, food is abstracted around the stomach into a small pouch, dipping the quantity of food a person can eat and obstructing its absorption.

Gastric banding trips a ring over the top of the stomach to limit the amount of food the person consume.

Diabetics who had gastric bypass had the gold benchmark weight loss surgery in the U.S. 83 percent wound up free of diabetes medications, some within days of the procedure.

“Sixty-two percent of diabetics who had the gastric banding procedure could stop taking diabetes medication while maintaining good control of their blood sugar. Dr. Rick Meijer at the Institute for Cardiovascular Research at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and the lead author of the new report said those outcomes exceed what can be achieved with conventional methods of diabetes treatment.” http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/23/us-weight-loss-surgery-idUSTRE75M5R920110623

Gould said that the original cost of surgery, compared to the extended costs of diabetes care and other health effects of being obese, can be earn after 18 months to two years.

Gould told Reuters Health that it would be a vast directs cost, but looking at this from the bigger picture, he thinks that if we can cure instead of manage the complications, it will save money in the long run.

Doctors frequently counsel the patients who have type-2 diabetes to lose weight because it is proven that the way to manage the disease is to decrease the risk of the serious complications. It will make a difference on how to lose weight.

“Most people lose weight by eating less or exercising more, or both. But in severe cases, doctors sometimes recommend weight loss surgery. In the most common procedure, the surgeon removes part of the stomach and small intestine. Gastric bypass surgery, as it’s called, is highly effective, but weight loss isn’t the only benefit.” http://www.voanews.com/english/news/health/Weight-Loss-Surgery-Can-Reverse-Diabetes–120880639.html

Those doctors who have treated diabetes have known that the patients who underwent surgery were most likely get their blood sugar under control quickly even before they lose weight.

According to the researcher Blandine LaFerrère who works in New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center, they have shown that the gastric bypass surgery shown a decrease in amino acids significantly. He added that the novel about the study is that they don’t see it in the diet group, though they lose weight on the same amount.

The details are still not very clear but the increase in the particular amino acids in the patients that had the surgery signals that their metabolism had already changed.

Blandine said that she thinks that the hope of the research in the bypass surgery it to make new developments in treatment and that treatment would be base on the understanding of what causes diabetes type 2.

If the researchers will know and understand the exact weight loss surgery that leads to good control of blood sugar even before the weight loss, researchers may be able to turn that knowledge into medicine or treatment that can help people with diabetes.

Some studies have suggested that weight loss surgery could be a fast diabetes fix for some people, now the researchers are getting closer to an explanation on why might be the case and it is more about the weight loss process.

The researcher from the Columbia University and Duke University had studied a two groups of diabetic patients at the hospital in New York About ten people had a gastric bypass surgery that important in reducing the size of the stomach and 11 people who were in the strict diet. Both in the groups lose and average of 22 to 26.

Scientists calculated and measure the circulating amino acids and acylcarnitines in the blood of subjects, animal studies have recommended that they may be connected to resistance in the insulin. (Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins; acylcarnitines are fatty acids that have bound to carnitine).

Researchers establish a major decline in branched chain amino acids within one month on the patients who underwent weight-loss surgery. Still, even after two months, those patients on dietary involvement had awfully little or had no change in branched-chain amino acids.

“Essentially, the lower the concentration of branched-chain amino acids, the less insulin resistant the patients were, the researchers reported online Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine. They replicated their findings in a smaller group of obese patients at Duke and found the branched-chain amino-acid levels were still lower after six months among those who had gastric bypass surgery.” http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-surgery-diabetes-20110428,0,1325824.story

In conclusion, there is something about the weight loss surgery and not the weight loss itself seems to have an enhance glycemic control and the amino acids levels shows to have a role on it. It is still not clear if the amino acids cause the insulin resistance.

According to the perspective of the two cardiologist from Massachusetts General Hospital, further work is essential in order to establish wither the reduction in the concentration of the circulating amino acids after the weight loss is the cause or the consequence of the sensitivity in the insulin. Safe to say, that the research adds to a rising consent that the benefit of the gastric bypass surgery needs to be explored further.

“Irish company Crospon have announced the launch of a new tool, an imaging catheter called the EF-620, to improve the outcome of weight loss surgery. The product is the latest addition to the company’s existing EndoFLIP® imaging system. Development of this new product, which enables surgeons to measure the size of the stomach and passageways during weight loss surgery, was supported by a £1 million Wellcome Trust Strategic Translation Award.” http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/2011/News/WTVM050932.htm

Weight loss surgery has become one of the fastest ways of surgical procedure because of the obesity epidemic. There are several weight loss surgery now that involves reduction of the size of the stomach in order to limit the amount of food that a person can consume.

Now, surgeons had no consistent way of quantifying and standardizing the size of the pouch. In the case of gastric band procedure, the possibility of measuring the tightness of surgery could also result into reduction in the number of adjustments as well as the follow up procedures.

According to John O’Dea, the CEO of Crospon, said that the surgeon are taking extra care on the procedure. The challenge of the procedure to the surgeons is that, they have limited ability to measure the size of the sleeve being created.

Earlier this year, US Food and Drug Administration issued an approval to market the EF-620 specifically for the sleeve gastrectomy and with gastric imbrications procedures. O’Dea said that the EF-620 is specifically proposed for bariatric surgery which is the fastest growing bariatric surgery procedure.

The new product could permit reproducible size of sleeves to help surgeons examine why for some patients surgery is unsuccessful. In the end, it could wholly progress the achievement rates of weight loss surgery.