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Surgery and the Gordian knot of metabolic syndrome

July 13, 2026

ACS Metabolic Surgery Symposium — Collected Papers Surgery and the Gordian Knot of Metabolic Syndrome Robin P. Blackstone, MD, FACS; Walter J. Pories, MD, FACS; Bruce Wolfe, MD, FACS; Marc Bessler, MD, FACS; Eric J. DeMaria, MD, FACS; et al. Originally published in the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons, January 2019;104(1):53–61. In 333…

Surgery Obesity Related Disease

September 1, 2012

At the time this article was written, “remission” and “type 2 diabetes” rarely, if ever appeared in the same article or sentence. There was no definition as once a person developed type 2 diabetes, it was regarded as irreversible. This paper, documented a phenomenon, that after gastric bypass the marker of hypergylemia regressed to normal…