Role of bariatric surgery in the treatment of obesity and diabetes

Abstract

Although bariatric surgery was originally developed to treat high degrees of obesity, over time, the focus of these surgical procedures has shifted to treating the comorbidities of obesity, the metabolic syndrome. In recent years, special attention has been paid to the therapy of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) using bariatric methods, which represents a major breakthrough in the treatment of diabetes.