Bariatric or Metabolic Surgery?

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A just published study carried out in a very large cohort of subjects showed that patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) who had five risk-factor variables within the target ranges appeared to have very little or no excess risk of death, myocardial infarction, or stroke as compared with the general population [1]. The relative risk of pathological outcome increases with the increasing number of risk factor variables outside the usual target ranges. However, the estimated explained relative risk showing the association for various risk factor variables to heart failure or to cardiovascular events was very low: in the multiple regression analysis the R² values ranged from 0 to 0.015, so indicating that any predicting factor can explain only very little bit of variance [1]. …