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This is the Scientific Surgery Archive, which contains all randomized clinical trials in surgery that have been identified by searching the top 50 English language medical journal issues since January 1998. Compiled by Jonothan J. Earnshaw, former Editor-in-Chief, BJS

Bariatric–metabolic surgery versus conventional medical treatment in obese patients with type 2 diabetes: 5 year follow-up of an open-label, single-centre, randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2015; 386: 964–973.

Published: 15th December 2015

Authors: Mingrone G, Panunzi S, De Gaetano A, Guidone C, Iaconelli A, Nanni G et al. et al.

Conclusion

Five years after randomization, in this study that included 60 patients, the rate of diabetes remission was none in the medically treated patients, compared to 37 per cent after gastric bypass and 63 per cent after biliopancreatic diversion.

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