Traditional diabetes treatment includes diet control, exercise, oral medication and insulin therapy, etc. Although these treatments can control blood glucose to varying degrees, they cannot prevent the aggravation of diabetes and the emergence of serious complications of diabetes with the extension of time. In recent years, new drugs for the treatment of diabetes have emerged, but the rate of complications, disability and death caused by diabetes is still high. Zhang Xiaochun, Department of Surgery, Hainan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
“Diabetes is a gastrointestinal disease that can be cured by surgery”. Gastric diversion surgery for diabetes was introduced into China from abroad in 2004 and has cured more than 10,000 diabetic patients in recent years, while more than 86% of diabetic complications have been relieved or cured after surgery. This surgery has changed the history and created a miracle.
In 2010, the Chinese Medical Association formulated the “Draft Expert Guidelines for the Surgical Treatment of Diabetes in China”. The American Diabetes Association has also written gastric diversion surgery into the Guidelines for the Treatment of Diabetes.