Comment on: Glycemic Variability and Hypoglycemia before and after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy – a cohort study of females without diabetes

Wearable devices and monitoring all sorts of personal biologic data from temperature to heart rate to blood oxygen saturation has become increasingly common, especially with the focus of monitoring data for health and fitness purposes. From the metabolic surgeon ’s perspective, continuous glucose monitoring has also become increasingly prevalent – even in our patients without diabetes. While post-bariatric hypoglycemia has been a long-standing complication of surgical weight loss, clinically significant hypoglycemia appears to affect a small portion of surgical patients.
Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research