{"id":2609,"date":"2019-11-06T06:09:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T06:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/news\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2021-03-31T00:06:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T18:36:16","slug":"diabetes-calculator-weighs-risk-of-bariatric-surgery-against-standard-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/diabetes-calculator-weighs-risk-of-bariatric-surgery-against-standard-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes calculator weighs risk of bariatric surgery against standard care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: cardiovascularbusiness.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"views-element-container l-bl block block-config-provider--views block-plugin-id--views-block-paragraphs-block-1\">\n<div class=\"block__inner\">\n<div class=\"block__content\">\n<div class=\"element-container-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"view view-paragraphs view-id-paragraphs view-display-id-block_1 js-view-dom-id-109b0e22216abdc32973787f06e91b653b22d6243910f96bb088fb059f9a2425\">\n<div class=\"view-content view-rows\">\n<div class=\"views-row\">\n<div class=\"views-field views-field-field-paragraphs\">\n<div class=\"field-content\">\n<div class=\"paragraph paragraph--type-text paragraph--view-mode-default\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field-paragraph--field-text field-formatter-text-default field-name-field-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden has-single\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A novel risk calculator developed by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic encourages patients with both type 2 diabetes and obesity to weigh their treatment options for optimal long-term health.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bariatric surgery, or weight loss surgery, has been recommended as a treatment option for people with concomitant type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity since 2016, when the American Diabetes Association first published a consensus report on the subject. But the therapy remains underutilized in clinical practice, eclipsed largely by standard medical care and lifestyle advice.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bariatric surgeon Ali Aminian, MD, and colleagues at the Cleveland Clinic developed their new tool\u2014the 10-year Individualized Diabetes Complications Risk Scores\u2014in two phases over the course of two years, focusing on individualized recommendations based on patients\u2019 current health status and evidence-based data. The first phase, which wrapped earlier this year and was published in\u00a0JAMA\u00a0in September, found that weight loss surgery in patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity was linked to a 40% lower risk of death and major adverse CV events in the decade following. Those patients also had better diabetes control, lost more weight and used fewer medications than their peers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"l-bl dfp-advertise-block block block-config-provider--dfp block-plugin-id--dfp-ad-35c85f4f-2402-4f1a-bc3a-46a6ff6098e0\">\n<div class=\"block__inner\">\n<div class=\"block__content\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"l-bl dfp-advertise-block block block-config-provider--dfp block-plugin-id--dfp-ad-e1be0e90-1adf-4fd0-9159-7ba0300ec51f\">\n<div class=\"block__inner\">\n<div class=\"block__content\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"views-element-container l-bl block block-config-provider--views block-plugin-id--views-block-paragraphs-block-1\">\n<div class=\"block__inner\">\n<div class=\"block__content\">\n<div class=\"element-container-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"view view-paragraphs view-id-paragraphs view-display-id-block_1 js-view-dom-id-49ddf89077f694b7b687b9ee2766b6603c5c77b39c39336c52b7f2eead016930\">\n<div class=\"view-content view-rows\">\n<div class=\"views-row\">\n<div class=\"views-field views-field-field-paragraphs\">\n<div class=\"field-content\">\n<div class=\"paragraph paragraph--type-text paragraph--view-mode-default\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field-paragraph--field-text field-formatter-text-default field-name-field-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden has-single\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The same group of patients were used in phase two of the trial, which aimed to identify predictors for different health outcomes. Aminian and his team studied 26 unique risk factors for different outcomes, including risk of dying, and developed their risk calculator to estimate the likelihood of coronary heart disease, stroke, heart failure, kidney disease and mortality over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe calculator can be a useful tool for physicians and patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity,\u201d Aminian said in a\u00a0release. \u201cIt shows a patient\u2019s risk of heart disease, stroke, heart failure, diabetic kidney disease and death over the next 10 years with usual care. It also shows how a patient\u2019s risk of those adverse events could change after metabolic surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Aminian et al.\u2019s results are being presented this week at the ObesityWeek 2019 international symposium in Las Vegas. The calculator will be accessible via the Cleveland Clinic Risk Calculator Library and as a smartphone application, BariatricCalc.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDiabetes can be a devastating disease and combined with obesity, patients are at a high risk for cardiovascular complications,\u201d Steven Nissen, MD, chief academic officer of the Heart &amp; Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic, said in the release. \u201cMetabolic surgery is an underutilized treatment for these patients. 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