Why the most powerful treatment for diabetes turns out to be surgery?
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Diabetes is one of the most progressive chronic diseases in the world, causing more than 50% of the global human deaths.
Although there have been improvements in the treating methods and modernization of techniques, the complications related to diabetes are still on the rise.
Modification in diet, oral hypoglycemic medications have been proved to be inadequate, whereas insulin therapy seems to be a temporary option. Therefore, it has been concluded that surgery is the best option to treat type-II diabetes.
Surgeries like Bariatric surgery and Metabolic surgeries are performed to treat Type-II Diabetes.
The mechanism of these surgeries is a gastrointestinal bypass, leading to considerable weight loss and also from a combination of hormonal changes that occur after the proximal intestine is excluded, with an increase in the nutrient delivery to the small bowel.
However, it should be kept in mind that every surgery comes with its own complications.