Some more good news
The Herald has a story today about weight-loss surgery and Type II diabetes. They say that two studies reported improvements in blood sugar control in people having the surgery, with complete remission of diabetes in some. The story tells you where the research was published, and even has a comment from an independent researcher. The only thing it misses is that it doesn’t come out and say that the studies were randomized: patients were randomly allocated to surgical or medical treatment, so the results are highly credible.
The two papers and a commentary are (currently) free-access at the New England Journal of Medicine, so you can even read the evidence for yourself.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »