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The coming of age of metabolic surgery

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Individuals with obesity who undergo bariatric surgery are much less likely to develop type 2 diabetes mellitus than are those receiving routine care, new findings reveal. Intriguingly, baseline data on surrogate measures of insulin resistance rather than BMI were predictive of the preventive effect of surgery on type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Section of GI Metabolic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, 525 East 68th Street, P-714, New York, 10065, NY, USA

    Francesco Rubino

  2. Diabetes & Obesity Center of Excellence and Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, University of Washington School of Medicine, Box 358280 (mail stop 111), Seattle, 98195, WA, USA

    David E. Cummings

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F. Rubino declares associations with the following companies: Covidien (research grant), NGM Biopharmaceuticals (scientific advisory board). D. E. Cummings declares associations with the following companies: Johnson & Johnson (grant/research support).

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Rubino, F., Cummings, D. The coming of age of metabolic surgery. Nat Rev Endocrinol 8, 702–704 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2012.207

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