Response to Comment on: Cohen et al. Effects of Gastric Bypass Surgery in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Only Mild Obesity. Diabetes Care 2012;35:1420–1428
Year: 2013
Type: letter
Abstract: We thank Dr. Kral for his thoughtful comments on our article regarding the use of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery (RYGB) to treat type 2 diabetes (T2DM), and we would like to respond and add to his comments (1).
Although the 1991 National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines were thoughtfully constructed and have been highly valuable, we agree that they were not originally intended as stringent dictums governing bariatric surgery. The NIH itself posts the following concession atop their related website (http://consensus.nih.gov/1991/1991gisurgeryobesity084html.htm). “This statement is more than 5 years old and is provided solely for historical purposes… . Some of the material is likely to be out of date, and at worst simply wrong.”
Nevertheless, no updated NIH guidelines have since been rendered, and the 1991 recommendations have had enormous impact. American …
Source: Diabetes Care
DOI: 10.2337/dc12-2243
Authors: David E. Cummings, Ricardo V. Cohen
Institutions: University of Washington, VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2113159550