ArticleDiabetologia2015
Type 2 diabetes mellitus and microvascular complications 1 year after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: a case-control study.
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- The Impact of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery on Diabetic Kidney Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Obesity surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Improvement of Renal Function After Bariatric Surgery: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Obesity surgery · 2021Pooled it
- The Long-Term Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Type 2 Diabetes Remission, Microvascular and Macrovascular Complications, and Mortality: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Obesity surgery · 2017Pooled it
- Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Renal Function in Obese Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta Analysis.PloS one · 2016Pooled it
- Outcomes of Diabetic Retinopathy Post-Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Bariatric surgery leads to an improvement in small nerve fibre damage in subjects with obesity.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2021Article
- Improvements in Diabetic Neuropathy and Nephropathy After Bariatric Surgery: a Prospective Cohort Study.Obesity surgery · 2021Observational
- Corneal Keratocyte Density and Corneal Nerves Are Reduced in Patients With Severe Obesity and Improve After Bariatric Surgery.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2021Article
- Bariatric Surgery Induces Retinal Thickening Without Affecting the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Independent of Diabetic Status.Obesity surgery · 2020Observational
- The Effect of Metabolic Surgery on the Complications of Diabetes: What Are the Unanswered Questions?Frontiers in endocrinology · 2020Review
- Long-term impact of bariatric surgery in diabetic nephropathy.Surgical endoscopy · 2019Article
- Measurement of glomerular filtration rate in patients undergoing obesity surgery.BMC nephrology · 2018Article
- Microvascular Outcomes in Patients With Diabetes After Bariatric Surgery Versus Usual Care: A Matched Cohort Study.Annals of internal medicine · 2018Observational
- How Ethical Is Our Current Delivery of Care to Patients with Severe and Complicated Obesity?Obesity surgery · 2018Review
- Obesity surgery makes patients healthier and more functional: real world results from the United Kingdom National Bariatric Surgery Registry.Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery · 2018Article
- Incidence of end-stage renal disease following bariatric surgery in the Swedish Obese Subjects Study.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2018Article
- Roles of increased glycaemic variability, GLP-1 and glucagon in hypoglycaemia after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.European journal of endocrinology · 2017Article
- The role of bariatric surgery to treat diabetes: current challenges and perspectives.BMC endocrine disorders · 2017Review
- Does bariatric surgery prevent progression of diabetic retinopathy?Eye (London, England) · 2017Article
- Presentation, pathology and prognosis of renal disease in type 2 diabetes.BMJ open diabetes research & care · 2017Article
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Abstract
aims/hypothesisWe aimed to examine the effects of bariatric surgery on microvascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes using objective measures.
methodsProspective case-control study of 70 obese surgical patients with type 2 diabetes undergoing gastric bypass surgery matched for age, sex and duration of diabetes to 25 medical patients treated using international guidelines. Microvascular complications were assessed before and 12-18 months after intervention using urine albumin creatinine ratio (ACR) measurements, two-field digital retinal images and peripheral nerve conduction studies (in the surgical group only).
resultsUrine ACR decreased significantly in the surgical group but increased in the medical group. There were no significant differences between the surgical and medical groups in the changes in retinopathy. There were no changes in the nerve conduction variables in the surgical group. CONCLUSIONS/
interpretationIn the short term, bariatric surgery may be superior to medical care in the treatment of diabetic nephropathy, but not retinopathy or neuropathy.
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