Published in:
01-09-2013
The Authors Respond: A Multisite Study of Long-Term Remission and Relapse of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Following Gastric Bypass
Authors:
David E. Arterburn, Guilherme M. Campos, Sebastien Haneuse, Nancy E. Sherwood, Andy Bogart, Stephen Sidney, Karen J. Coleman, Mary Kay Theis, Patrick O’Connor, David Fisher
Published in:
Obesity Surgery
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Issue 9/2013
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Excerpt
We thank Drs. Hussain and El-Hasani for their thoughtful comments and critique of our manuscript. We appreciate their endorsement of our finding that patients with surrogate markers for more severe type 2 diabetes and worse beta cell function, i.e., those with longer duration of disease, insulin use, and poor preoperative glycemic control, are least likely to experience remission and are at higher risk for relapse of their diabetes after gastric bypass surgery [
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