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By ASHRAF PADANNA | ARAB NEWS
Published: Aug 27, 2010 00:36 Updated: Aug 27, 2010 00:36
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Doctors at a specialized hospital in Kerala treating diabetes using keyhole surgery say more than 95 percent of their patients left the hospital fully cured of diabetes after treatment.
“It is now clear that intestinal hormone GLP1 (glucagons-like peptide-1) levels can regulate the insulin release from pancreas. Hence by increasing GLP1 levels in the gut the diabetes gets controlled,” said Dr Hafeez Rahman, chairman of the Sunrise Hospital in Kochi, and a well-known keyhole surgeon and gynecologist.
“Keyhole surgeries like sleeve gastrectomy and Ileal interposition are found to stimulate GLP1 secretion and give permanent cure for diabetes,” added Dr. Rahman, also a visiting specialist at the Medcare Hospital in Dubai who has completed 48,000 laparoscopic surgeries since 1992.
These procedures were conducted on patients having more than ideal weight and those with diabetes of shorted duration of a few years as well as those who had already damaged their end organs like kidney, eye and heart…