Adjustable gastric banding and conventional therapy for type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial.

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Published in JAMA on January 23, 2008

Authors

John B Dixon1, Paul E O'Brien, Julie Playfair, Leon Chapman, Linda M Schachter, Stewart Skinner, Joseph Proietto, Michael Bailey, Margaret Anderson

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Obesity Research and Education, Monash University Medical School, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. john.dixon@med.monash.edu.au

Associated clinical trials:

Sleeve Gastrectomy Versus Medical Management for Remission of Diabetes in Mild to Moderately Obese Patients | NCT00965302

Alliance of Randomized Trials of Medicine vs Metabolic Surgery in Type 2 Diabetes (ARMMS-T2D) | NCT02328599

A Diabetes Improvement in Medical Therapy Versus SADJB Study (DIMS) | NCT03165812

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