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"Patients who undergo gastric bypass surgery may benefit from an improvement in diabetes symptoms, but the disease is unlikely to be cured, a study suggests. Researchers at Group Health Research Institute in the US followed 4,434 obese adults from 1995 to 2008, all of whom had type-2 diabetes and were candidates for gastric bypass surgery. They found that in two-thirds of cases, the patient&amp;amp;#39;s diabetes initially went away after surgery. However, more than a third of these patients developed diabetes once again within five years of having gastric surgery. In cases where a patient&amp;amp;#39;s diabetes went away following surgery, it typically did not return for a median of eight years. Overall, more than half (56 per cent) of patients had no long-lasting remission of their diabetes following their gastric bypass. Principal investigator Dr David Arterburn, a general internist and associate investigator at Group Health Research Institute, revealed: &amp;amp;#39;Our results suggest that, after gastric surgery, diabetes stays away for longer in those people whose diabetes was less severe and at an earlier stage at the time of surgery.&amp;amp;#39; The findings, which are published in the journal Obesity Surgery, underline the importance of preventing diabetes in the first place, he added. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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