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SUBMITTER: Petry TZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4603288 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Petry Tarissa Z TZ Fabbrini Elisa E Otoch Jose P JP Carmona Murilo A MA Caravatto Pedro P PP Salles João E JE Sarian Thais T Correa Jose L JL Schiavon Carlos A CA Patterson Bruce W BW Cohen Ricardo R Klein Samuel S
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 20151001 10
<h4>Objective</h4>To determine whether upper gastrointestinal tract (UGI) bypass itself has beneficial effects on the factors involved in regulating glucose homeostasis in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D).<h4>Methods</h4>A 12-month randomized controlled trial was conducted in 17 overweight/obese subjects with T2D, who received standard medical care (SC, n = 7, BMI = 31.7 ± 3.5 kg/m(2) ) or duodenal-jejunal bypass surgery with minimal gastric resection (DJBm) (n = 10; BMI = 29.7 ± 1.9 kg/m(2)) ...[more]