Weight-Loss Surgery May Improve Diabetes-Related Kidney Damage

<p>WEDNESDAY, Jun 20 (<span>HealthDay News</span>) — Weight-loss medicine may
reduce a risk of <span>kidney disease</span> in portly people with diabetes, according
to a tiny study.</p>
<p>The investigate enclosed 52 patients, mostly female, who were portly and had<span>type 2 diabetes</span>. Nearly 40 percent of a patients had diabetic
nephropathy, a form of kidney repairs that can need dialysis and lead to<span>kidney failure</span>.</p>
<p>All of a patients underwent <span>bariatric surgery</span>, dictated to help
people remove weight. Most had a form of bariatric medicine famous as gastric
bypass, in that a stomach is stapled to make it smaller, and a small
intestine is rerouted to a smaller pouch.</p>
<p>Five years after surgery, scarcely 60 percent of a patients who’d had<span>diabetic nephropathy</span> no longer had a condition, a researchers
said.</p>
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