Bariatric surgery dramatically decreases the conversion from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes mellitus, according to a study presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery—results one commenter called “nearly miraculous” compared with long-term studies of efforts to prevent conversion through lifestyle change.
The retrospective study examined data from 1,326 bariatric patients with prediabetes who underwent