Is menopause , but not age , an independent risk factor for fasting plasma glucose levels in nondiabetic women?
Menopause, but not age, is directly involved in augmented FPG levels in nondiabetic women.
Weight loss is not the reason why GB controls diabetes mellitus. Instead, bypassing the foregut and reducing food intake produce the profound long-term alterations in glucose metabolism and insulin action. These findings suggest that our current paradigms of type 2 diabetes mellitus deserve review. The critical lesion may lie in abnormal signals from the gut.