Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Although lifestyle measures and medical therapy are the cornerstone of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) management, achieving optimal glycemic control in T2DM patients with obesity remains challenging. There is strong and consistent evidence that bariatric surgery (BS) is an effective strategy to improve glycemia in diabetic patients and often leads to remission of T2DM in patients with obesity. The majority of the published literature supporting T2DM remission after BS ha...

Background: Bariatric surgery leads to weight loss and to cardiometabolic risk improvement. Although prediabetes remission after bariatric surgery is biologically plausible, data on this topic is scarce.Aim: We aimed to access pre-diabetes remission rate and clinical predictors of remission in a 4 year follow up period.Methods: Observational longitudinal study including patients with morbid obesity and prediabetes submitted to bari...