Electrical Stimulation Helps Diabetes, Obesity

Overweight patients with type 2 diabetes had significant short-term improvement in glycemic control when implanted with electronic nerve stimulators.

A meal-activated device led to a 1% mean improvement in hemoglobin A1c, which increased with rising baseline HbA1c levels, Arthur Bohdjalian, MD, of the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, reported here at the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery meeting.  Click here for full article.