Elizabeth Soto used to say no when her husband suggested they go dancing. "I didn’t want to go," she said. "I felt tired and ugly." She also was carrying 314 pounds on her 5-foot-7-inch frame and had diabetes.
Aggressively driving blood sugar levels as close to normal as possible in high-risk diabetes patients appears to increase the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke, according to major government study that stunned and disappointed experts.
At the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine meeting, Jacquelyn Blackstone, D.O., of the Maine Medical Center in Portland revealed that pregnancy after gastric bypass surgery appears to involve no more risk than might be expected from morbid obesity.
Weight-loss surgery works much better than standard medical therapy as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes in obese people, the first study to compare the two approaches has found.
