• “People with obesity and type 2 diabetes who had bariatric surgery were significantly less likely to need or start taking diabetes medication six years after bariatric surgery, according to a new study published online this month in JAMA Surgery.”

Isn’t it time to get off the diabetic medications? Surgery is likely to help you

• Bariatric surgeon, Michael Gagner, MD, FRCSC from the Herbert Wertheim School of Medicine, Florida International University in Miami and the Hôpital du Sacre Coeur, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, posits,  $38.8 billion is spent on antidiabetes medication in the United States alone, an amount he says “would have surgically treated an astonishing 1.3 million patients.”

• “The evidence supporting metabolic and bariatric surgery for type 2 diabetes in patients with obesity is overwhelming, yet surgery remains underutilized in this population,” said Samer Mattar, MD, president of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS). “We need to change that.”